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The Systems Research Group - a brief overview. Jon Crowcroft 20.10.2010. Systems Research Group Activities. The SRG designs and builds systems: We design and build computer systems We design and build operating systems We design and build network systems
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The Systems Research Group- a brief overview Jon Crowcroft 20.10.2010
Systems Research Group Activities • The SRG designs and builds systems: • We design and build computer systems • We design and build operating systems • We design and build network systems • We design and build distributed systems • (many of us also investigate the theoretical and/or analytical underpinnings of these…)
SRG People • Jean Bacon: distributed systems and middleware • Jon Crowcroft: networking the mobile masses • Richard Gibbens: modeling networks • David Greaves: safety-critical ubiquitous systems • Tim Griffin: algebras and languages for routing • Steve Hand: virtualization, storage and multi-core • Ian Leslie: mobile operating systems & networks • Cecilia Mascolo: mobile and sensor systems • Derek McAuley: distributed systems design • Andrew Moore: better networks thru measurement • Eiko Yoneki: Complex Dynamic Systems • Phillip Watts: Interconnects
Steven Hand Virtualization, Storage and Multi-core • Xen: open-source virtualization • Fault-tolerance via deterministic replay • Horizon: storage for ubiquitous systems • Availability, differential privacy, economics • Multi-core: • Software lock-elision (transparently scale apps) • Symphony OS (speculative execution)
Andrew W Moore Measurement-Informed Network Design • Designing and building new network systems using recent photonic breakthroughs • Beyond 100Gb/s: converged architectures for end-hosts and networks • Energy-Proportional Networking: whole-system, top-to-bottom redesign • 3M: measuring, monitoring, modeling networks
Jean Bacon Systems for Health and Transport • PAL: health and lifestyle monitoring • seamless support for assisted living • SmartFlow: secure event-driven middleware • healthcare applications (audit, anomaly detection, …) • TIME-EACM: monitoring trains, buses, traffic, e.g. • MIDAS data mining (M25 induction loop) • low impact infrared lamp-post sensors
Jon Crowcroft Everything Networking • Haggle: ad hoc google (and other applications…) • SocialNets: leveraging social networks for comms • predictive content dissemination, routing, … • ITA: bullet-proof ad-hoc networking • TINA: how do we make an airport work better? • passive RFID boarding pass, bag check: 1M objects @ 1m! • Horizon: making pervasive computing make money • Welcoming city, Connected journey, A Day in the Park
Cecilia Mascolo Mobile and Sensor Systems • Content dissemination via opportunistic communication • Sharing media content during transport journeys • Social network analysis(with time and space) • Human connectivity and patterns analysis • Applications: adverts; content dissemination; provisioning • Wildlife monitoringthrough mobile sensors • Tagged animals to understand behaviour and patterns • Mobile sensing of human activitythrough mobile phones • Exploiting sensors on phones to gather behaviour, interactions/emotions (in collaboration with social psychology)
Contacts http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg • jean.bacon@cl.cam.ac.uk • jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk • steven.hand@cl.cam.ac.uk • cecilia.mascolo@cl.cam.ac.uk • andrew.moore@cl.cam.ac.uk
Some Specific Projects C-Aware - with China Mobile Smart Social Signage - with various (MSR SORA + HK video s/w) London Olympics user contrib p2p/ad hoc video sharing 1M users
Models of Industry Collaboration Anything you can think of Collaborate in research project Contribute work/people/in kind Hire people from here - e.g. by trying them Fund Students/Staff Industry club IPR We own, you own, we share - pick one Cost varies in obvious way