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Current Research
Survivable Systems
We are interested in designing and implementing systems resilient to
both internal and external attacks. Our work in this area combines
Byzantine fault-tolerant protocols with cryptographic mechanisms to
create scalable, efficient, and robust software solutions. Please click
here for more details.
Messaging Systems
We focus on messaging systems for wide area and wireless environments,
more specifically on routing, multicast and reliability protocols for
networks that rapidly change in structure, availability and bandwidth.
- Spines
Spines is a software research platform that allows experimentation and
deployment of overlay networks in the Internet. Spines instantiates
overlay nodes on the participating computers, and creates virtual links
between these nodes. It allows both reliable and best-effort communication
through an API very similar to the socket interface.
- SMesh
SMesh is a seamless wireless mesh network that provides peer-to-peer
connectivity, Internet connectivity, and fast handoff to mobile clients
across the mesh. SMesh underlying communication infrastructure is
built on a customized version of Spines.
Group Communication
Our work in Group Communication area involves creating both advanced group
communication systems for local and wide area networks, and applications
that use group communication. A wide area group communication system
scales to tens of sites (Local Area Networks), with hundreds of servers,
supporting thousands of users. This kind of service is crucial for
building useful infrastructures such as scalable certification systems
and high performance access control services , as well as collaborative
applications and replicated databases.
- Spread Wide Area Multicast and Group Communication Toolkit
Spread is a group communication toolkit developed by DSN. It supports both local
area networks and wide area networks, while providing services ranging from reliable message
passing to fully ordered messages with delivery guarantees even in the
case of failures. It is available for download.
- Secure Spread
The Secure Spread project integrates security services with reliable
group communication. In particular, it enhances the Spread Toolkit with security services.
- Database Replication
We research protocols for high-throughput, low-latency replication of services and databases using group
communication as a tool.
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Distributed Systems and Networks Lab
Computer Science Department
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2686
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