Supervisors

- Position
- Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences
- Division / Faculty
- Faculty of Science

- Position
- Research Fellow in Distributed Systems, Blockchain and Internet of Things
- Division / Faculty
- Faculty of Science
Overview
Distributed applications in the domain of bush fire monitoring and connected vehicles expect to operate in a highly dynamic environment with unpredictable mobility, computation, and communication patterns. This project aims to create an extreme distributed computing environment using our 20-node Raspberry Pi testbed, involving Bluetooth, WiFi, and mobile devices (Raspberry Pi or mobile phones).
Research activities
You are expected to focus on the following issues:
- Survey the literature to identify extreme distributed application environments and list down the challenges and requirements for each application
- develop a few extreme distributed computing scenarios with tight computation demand, latency, response time, and battery constraints
- demonstrate a few scenarios using Raspberry Pi and present empirical results highlighting the challenges.
Outcomes
We plan to write a research article describing the findings of this work. This project has immense potential for future research if the research activities are carried out diligently. It may also lead to a testbed for distributed computing in extreme environments.
Skills and experience
- Willingness to work on new areas and challenging problems
- desire to read papers, develop software designs, and write software
- ability to code in Python or similar languages
- knowledge of mail servers would be a big plus
- GitHub experience would be an advantage.
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Contact
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