Distributed Systems Laboratory

Department of Computer and Information Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania
Moore School of Electrical Engineering
Rooms 100 & 102
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389

The Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSL) is an academic and research facility investigating advanced networking technologies. A diverse group of people contributes daily to the projects that drive our research.

Resources

Additional information may be found on the external wiki, DSL@Penn.

Members of the DSL Lab have access to DSLWiki. Please contact Micah Sherr for access.

Current Projects

• SSARES: Secure Searchable Automated Remote Email Storage


• Confusion: a technique for thwarting network eavesdropping by inserting of uncertainty and indistinguishability in transcripts.


• JitterBug: Covert Channels using Input Device Subversion.


• Signatures

Past Projects

• The GAIN project.


• PLAN is a resource-bounded functional programming language that uses a form of remote procedure call to realize active network packet programming.


• POSSE is an accelerated program of security-focused software development to produce security-audited, trustworthy software.


• The RCANE project.


• SNAP (Safe and Nimble Active Packets) is an active networking system where traditional packet headers are replaced with programs written in a special-purpose programming language.


• SPYCE explores issues of software quality and infrastructure protection in diffuse computing environments.


• CING is a tool for measuring network-internal delays.


• FLAME is a system for flexible, high-performance network monitoring.


• STRONGMAN (Scalable TRust Of Next Generation MANagement) addresses issues of scale and complexity in security management by introducing a security policy interoperability layer based on a trust management system, and a high level specification language.


• Switchware explores the idea of allowing routing elements to be extensively programmed by the packets passing through them.

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