Distributed Systems Laboratory

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.

Current Projects

• NEBULA Future Internet Architecture
   
  
• NoBot - network-embedded defense against Botnets
   
  
• PLATO - Quantum Programming Languages - more information coming soon
   
  
• SAFE - clean slate design of secure hosts, including hardware, operating systems and language research
   
  
• SAFEST - experimental research into performance/anonymity tradeoffs
   
  
• SOUND - resilient networking architectures that exploit SAFE hardware
   
  

Past Projects

• AURORA Gigabit Testbed
   
  
• CING is a tool for measuring network-internal delays.
   
  
• Confusion: a technique for thwarting network eavesdropping by inserting of uncertainty and indistinguishability in transcripts.
   
  
• FLAME is a system for flexible, high-performance network monitoring.
   
  
• The GAIN project.
   
  
• JitterBug: Covert Channels using Input Device Subversion.
   
  
• 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.
   
  
• Protocol Boosters can improve performance of the communication protocols in a distributed system.
   
  
• 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.
   
  
• SSARES: Secure Searchable Automated Remote Email Storage
   
  
• 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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