Research Area: Distributed Computing and Systems
Description: Distributed System is a generic term to indicate any system that is composed by a collection of communicating computational devices, and distributed computing refers to computability and complexity issues in such environments. Our team is quite diverse and complementary, and it covers a wide spectrum of aspects of "Distributed Computing and Systems" ranging from theory to applications and including algorithm design, simulation, networks, architectures and management. Our research focuses on a variety of distributed environments (wired, wireless, ad hoc, mobile, peer-to-peer, self-organized). In all these environments we are interested in various issues, among them: design, efficiency, fault tolerance, quality of service, communication software reliability, safety and security.
Applications: Applications of our research include peer-to-peer systems, distributed multimedia systems, wireless and ad hoc networks, sensor networks, communication systems (IP-telephony, teleconferencing), e-commerce, distributed databases, large-scale distributed and mobile systems, mobile software agent technology, and network manage.
Professors:
| Bochmann (group) | peer-to-peer systems, quality of service management, distributed multimedia systems |
| Bolić (group) | multiprocessor systems on chip, computer architectures for systems on chip |
| Boukerche (group) | distributed algorithms, distributed and mobile computing, wireless ad hoc, sensor and mesh systems, distributed and mobile systems, distributed and mobile database systems, mobile peer-to-peer systems |
| Flocchini | distributed algorithms, distributed computing, algorithms for mobile entities |
| Groza | real-time embedded systems, smart sensors networks, distributed intelligent instrumentation |
| Ionescu (group) | network computing and control, design of distributed system software, pervasive and social computing, unified distributed communication systems, autonomic computing |
| Jourdan | distributed systems modeling, distributed systems testing, peer-to-peer systems |
| Karmouch (group) | multimedia application and services, mobile computing, ambient networks, autonomic networks |
| Miri (group) | privacy-preserving datamining, secure multi-party computations, ad hoc and sensor networks |
| Nayak | fault tolerance, distributed systems, ad hoc and sensor networks |
| Stojmenovic | distributed ad hoc, sensor, cellular wireless networks, applied algorithms |
| Ural | distributed system testing and verification, formal methods for software specification and design |
Some recent projects:
- Quality of service of Web Services and load sharing in peer-to-peer systems [Bochmann; funded by NSERC; earlier work was funded by IBM, NSERC, CITO, ORNEC and Nortel Networks]
- Fault tolerance of wireless sensor networks for emergency response and prepardness [Boukerche; funded by NSERC Strategic]
- Algorithms and protocols for large-scale distributed systems [Boukerche; funded by NSERC]
- Distributed simulation and wireless multimedia systems [Boukerche; funded by Canada Research Chair]
- Design of distributed interactive simulation systems [Boukerche; funded by Early Research Excellence Award]
- Network decontamination and other safety problems by mobile agents [Flocchini; funded by NSERC and University Research Chair]
- Distributed coordination of autonomous robots [Flocchini; funded by NSERC]
- Seamless mobility management [Karmouch; funded by NSERC and Ericsson]
- Ambient Networks [Karmouch; funded by Europe, NSERC]
- MESHNET [Karmouch; funded by Europe, NSERC]
- Reliable, secure distributed information systems [Miri; funded by NSERC]
- Scalable, secure and localizes data communication and topology control protocols for wireless ad hoc networks [Najak, Stojmenovic; funded by NSERC CRD]
- Energy-conserving coordination and data communication in wireless sensor actuator networks [Najak, Stojmenovic; funded by NSERC Strategic]
- Novel schemes for detecting attack packets during DDoS attacks [Najak; funded by ORNEC]
- Secure content routing for B2B applications [Ionescu; funded by ORNEC, NSERC, OCE]
- A pattern-based approach to autonomic computing [Ionescu; funded by IBM, NSERC, OCE]
- Test suite reduction for distributed system regression testing [Ural; funded by NSERC]
- Distributed database application testing [Ural; funded by NSERC]
- Design recovery from observations of concurrent systems [Ural; funded by NSERC]
- Reconfigurable distributed virtual instrumentation [Groza; funded by NSERC]
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Research Area Coordinator: Flocchini