Distributed systems & network management

Our research focuses on management of large and small networks and systems using distributed management. The advent of the Internet and network-based services means that we need to deal with scale on two fronts:

• large, geographically distributed systems that we encounter in e-business and
• small but many, resource-limited end-devices such as cellular phones.

We are currently working on dynamic, service provisioning with end-to-end quality requirements for the ASP environment as described in our ICorpMaker project. We have ongoing work on a distributed replication framework that provides an easy way to introduce customizable replication to applications. We are also looking at adaptive management, the ability of management software to cope with heterogeneity of underlying end-device types and available resources. For our projects, we partner primarily with Tivoli Systems, a division of IBM.