Stanford University Distributed Systems Group

The Distributed Systems Group (DSG), led by Prof. David R. Cheriton, is a research group in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Current Projects

The DSG has research projects in the following areas:

• Extreme Scale Cluster Architecture
• History-based Anti-Spam
• Location-based Security in Wireless Networks - the KIWI Project
• Defense against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
• Feedback Based Inter-domain Routing
• TRIAD -- Translating Relaying Internet Architecture integrating Active Directories. A NAT-based next-generation internet architecture incorporating multicast and directory services.

Publications

Group Members

Professor David Cheriton

PhD Students

• Katerina Argyraki
• Tassos Argyros
• Daniel Braga de Faria
• Evan Greenberg
• Mark Gritter
• Dapeng Zhu

Masters Students

• Gregory Chanan
• Randy Jennings

DSG Friends

• Stuart Cheshire (Former Student)
• Kenneth J. Duda (Former Student)
• Fusun Ertemalp (Former Student)
• Katsuhito Fukuoka (Former Visiting Scholar)
• Michael Greenwald (Former Student)
• Hugh Holbrook (Former Student)
• Christophe Joly (Former Research Staff)
• Yoshi Kitaya (Former Visiting Scholar)
• Vince Laviano (Former Student)
• Ken Leland (Formet Student)
• Dan Li (Former Student)
• Sam Liang (Former Student)
• Christophe Metivier (Former Research Staff)
• Madanlal S Musuvathi (Former Student)
• Tadashi Nakatani (Former Visiting Scholar)
• Shinobu Nogami (Former Visiting Scholar)
• Andre Pech (Former Student)
• Chetan Rai (Former Student)
• Costa Sapuntzakis (Former Student)
• Sandeep Singhal (Former Student)
• Mark Steiglitz (Former Student)
• Jonathan Stone (Former Student)
• Bo Yang (Former Student)
• Matt Zelesko (Former Student)

Past Projects

• Borrowed Virtual Time Scheduling
• Performance of packet checksums and CRCs over real data, and analysis of common packet errors.
• EXPRESS single-source multicast
• Reliable multicast transport protocols and multicast-based web caching.
• Object-oriented RPC
• High-performance Communication: very fast wide-area networks, network interfaces, multiprocessor gateways, multicast, distributed systems architectures and protocols, including Dissemination-Oriented Communication Support. The PARADISE project serves as an active testbed for much of this research.
• High-performance modular distributed operating systems, with particular support for efficient distributed parallel execution of large-scale applications.
• Parallel architecture, systems and programming, including hardware development of a multiprocessor machine, parallel operating systems and parallel and distributed application structuring.

DSG History