Embedded, Networked, and Distributed Systems

This group systematically explores architectures, models, algorithms, engineering, measurement, and control of embedded, networked, and distributed systems. The group is especially interested in large-scale systems, based on both wireless and wireline interconnection technologies, as well as high-performance system interconnects. Current group interests include:

• Automated management of large-scale networked systems
  • Innovative measurement techniques for flows in computer networks
  • Discovery and exploitation of topological and routing context
  • Capture and exploitation of policy
  • Innovative analysis techniques
  • Innovative distributed system software architectures
• Performance modelling and evaluation
• Performance optimization
• Systems support for mobile, context-aware and embedded computation
• Simulation of computer systems and networks
• Experimental computer networking
• Adaptive networked applications
• High-performance architectures
• Real-time network protocol architectures
• Distributed algorithms and systems
• Environmental sensor networks
• On-chip networks and systems
• computer hardware description languages
• parallel functional programming

Keywords: Distributed algorithms, performance measurement and analysis, network measurement, policy-based network management, closed-loop network management, networked systems, distributed systems, analytical modelling, simulation, distributed system architectures, networks, routing, switching, communication protocols, quality of service, congestion control, networked multimedia, parallel computers, system interconnects, embedded systems, sensor networks, digital circuit design, task parallelism, data parallelism

Academic Staff: Dr Lewis M Mackenzie, Dr John T O'Donnell, Dr Colin Perkins, Dr Dimitrios Pezaros, Prof Joe Sventek, Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede.

Research Assistants and Research Students: Miss Sara al-Humoud, Mr Martin Ellis, Ms Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, Mr Alexandros Koliousis, Mr Mahmoud Moadeli, Mr Aminu Mohammed, Mr Stephen Strowes, Mr Riaz Ul Amin.

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