Projects
Holistic optimization of large-scale networked services The growth of large-scale networked services has brought to the fore myriad challenges: performance, reliability, efficiency, cost, and more. Traditionally, work on addressing and balancing these has been done in silos. For instance, an…
In the Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) project, we use low-cost sensing devices to construct a virtual harness for vehicles. The goal is to monitor the state of the driver and how the vehicle is being driven in the context…
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The PinDrop project focuses on building the substrate for supporting high-quality real-time streaming over wired and wireless networks. Context Real-time streaming across the wide-area network (WAN) is key to several existing and anticipated services, including voice and video conferencing (e.g.,…
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Note: This research project has reached its conclusion. These pages are maintained for reference and archival purposes. The goal of the Physical Analytics project, or Phytics, is to perform analytics on the physical actions of users. Such analytics would be…
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Many networked applications that run in the background on a mobile device incur significant energy drains when using the cellular radio interface for communication. This is mainly due to the radio-tail, where the cellular radio remaining in a high energy…
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Note: This research project has reached its conclusion. These pages are maintained for reference and archival purposes. Recognizing the twin trends of a rapid growth of cellular data services and the commoditization of WiFi WLAN technology, Cool-Tether proposes an architecture…
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To reduce energy wastage by idle desktop computers in enterprise environments, the typical approach is to put a computer to sleep during long idle periods (e.g., overnight), with a proxy employed to reduce user disruption by maintaining the computer’s network…
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The CoCoNet project arises from the quest to have the best of both worlds, specifically, having the operational benefits of centralization along with the performance benefits of distribution.