Discolab is where research in distributed systems and networking converges. Our mission is to harmonize the operating system with the evolving role of networking in various emerging network-centric systems, ranging from Internet servers to ubiquitous networks of embedded systems. The premise of our crossroads research is that most of today's Internet computing and tomorrow's ubiquitous computing are inevitably becoming network-centric, hence the interaction between the operating system and the communication subsystem must be reconsidered.
Smart Phone is one device that holds great promise in realizing the pervasive computing vision. Goals of this project include: (1). Designing middleware and protocols for service provisioning on Smart Phones; (2). Designing middleware to support augmented reality applications on Smart Phones; (3). Characterizing energy usage of Smart Phone applications and developing energy optimization techniques. (4). Provide location based security.
The focus of our research in vehicular systems and networking is to build real systems in the area of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networking. TrafficView is a traffic monitoring system that has been tested on real cars under real traffic conditions.
The goal of our research in FileWall is to explore the benefits and limitations of both access monitoring and control policies for network file systems, using FileWall, a context-aware, programmable, network file system middlebox. Such context-aware analyses can be utilized to better understand and model user behavior and to perform context-aware network file system intrusion detection, non-intrusively. An additional goal of this project is to improve the programmability of the FileWall. The scope of this part includes providing efficient techniques for verification and validation within and across policies, as well as designing a graphical front-end.
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