Distributed Systems Research

Overview

This area explores issues in running applications on distributed systems with an emphasis on wide-area and wireless environments. Theoretical and practical aspects are important components of this research. Applications include: web information systems, e-commerce, mobile computing, and naming services. Research is focused on the investigation of middleware solutions including: the communication network of the application, client-server models versus peer-to-peer models, caching, and application quality of service.

Topics

• Capacity Planning
• Consistency Issues in Distributed Applications
• Content Distribution
• Fault Tolerance and Load Balancing
• Performance Evaluation
• Resource Discovery and Naming

Faculty

• Yi Cui 
• Larry Dowdy
• Aniruddha S. Gokhale 
• Douglas C. Schmidt
• Yuan Xue (http://vanets.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php)

Research Centers and Laboratories

• Software Engineering Research Group