Systems and Networking

Networking and distributed systems research includes a broad range of topics that include mobile systems, wireless protocols, ad-hoc networks, Quality of Service management, multimedia networking, peer-to-peer networking, routing, network simulations, active queue management, and sensor networks.

Operating system research focuses on distributed resource management, management of ubiquitous computing environments, reflective middleware, middleware "meta-operating systems," object-oriented operating system design, user interfaces that allow single users to interact with multi-computers, peer-to-peer operating system services, and context-sensitive distributed file systems, power management for data centers, file/storage systems, autonomic computing, system support for software robustness, and system support for databases.

Security research includes: privacy; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensors; mobile and embedded computers; specification, verification, and validation of policies; QoS guarantees and denial of service protections; next generation telephony; operating system virtualization and attestation; critical infrastructure systems, such as SCADA control systems and health care; messaging systems; network security gateways; usable security.

Real-time and embedded systems research areas include open real-time systems QoS driven real-time scheduling and communication protocols, integrated design of controllers and real-time schedulers, the integration between real-time, fault tolerant and security protocols, and robust dynamic real-time architecture for networked devices and smart spaces.

Faculty

Lui Sha	distributed, real-time systems
Carl A. Gunter	security, networks
Klara Nahrstedt	multimedia middleware, QoS, pervasive computing
Roy Campbell	distributed OS, security, ubiquitous computing
Gul Agha	distributed systems
William H. Sanders	trustworthy computing, distributed systems
Tarek Abdelzaher	sensor, embedded and real-time systems
Marco Caccamo	real-time OS, real-time scheduling
Indranil Gupta	distributed systems and protocol
Matthew Caesar	wide area networks and systems
Robin Kravets	mobile computing
Brighten Godfrey	P2P, internet routing architectures
Sam King	security, OS, virtual machines
Steve Lumetta	parallel computing, architecture, reliability
Nikita Borisov	security and privacy, distributed systems

Lab Locations

2109 Siebel Center (Agents & Embedded Systems)
2111 Siebel Center (Distributed & Concurrent Systems)
3105 Siebel Center (Active Spaces)
3109 Siebel Center (Networking)
3113 Siebel Center (Multimedia Lab)
4107 Siebel Center (Cluster and Cloud Computing Room)
4113 Siebel Center (Real-Time Systems)
4309 Siebel Center (Security)

Department of Computer Science