Distributed Systems Research Group
Table of content:
General description of research activities
Current research areas:
- Software engineering for distributed applications - Web Services, e-commerce, workflow management: formal techniques and methods
for system requirement specification and the derivation of distributed system designs from global specifications
- Peer-to-peer systems - aiming at reliability and performance: providing predicable performance and reliability to various applications (e.g. database access, video distribution, etc.) by using peer-to-peer systems and techniques developed for Grid applications
- Optical networks - exploring future network architectures with time-sharing of wavelengths: agile all-photonic networks, time-sharing of wavelength bandwidth, network control and routing protocols
Currently less active research areas:
- Quality of service management for distributed multimedia applications: adaptive applications, user and device mobility, security aspects, quality of service mangement and adaptation (see research description from 2002)
- Development of test cases for communication protocols and software systems: black-box testing, deriving test cases from the specification of the tested component, test development based on state-transition models, fault coverage issues, diagnostic testing (mainly during the 1990ies)
- Formal description techniques for communication protocols and other applications: Development and standardization of modeling languages for communication protocols and services (Estelle language and SDL - precursors of UML State diagrams), development of tools for generation of implementation code and test cases from system specifications (mainly during the 1980ies and 1990ies)
People
- Principal investigator: Gregor v. Bochmann
- Post-doctoral researchers
- PhD students
- Ying Qiao - room 4009E Tel 6243
- Toqeer Israr
- Seyed M. Mirtaheri - room 4009F
- MSc students
- Khaled Ben Hafaiedh
- Wan Bo
- Suryakant Choudhary
Publications
- Recent Publications: Here you can find
a list of our recent publications since 2000, classified by general areas.
- Selected Publications :
This page describes the more important publications before 2000, also
classified by areas.
- Public Documents: Most of the above, certain Master
and PhD theses, and certain Powerpoint presentations are available here in alphabetical order.
- ACM publications: You can down-load these publications from this web site.
Recent research projects
Location
The research of this group is performed in the SITE building (see
map and parking) in the following
research laboratories, which are shared by the research groups of several
professors:
- SITE building- room 4009: this is part of the Advanced Internet
Applications and Systems (AIAS) Laboratory
- ASERT Lab (Nortel Advanced Communication Software Engineering Research
and Training Laboratory) in the SITE building, several rooms in the fourth floor
Other useful pointers
Last update: Jan. 2011