Extreme Distributed Systems Research Group

Real-time Social Network and User Generated Content Analysis

Identifying anomalies and events of interest within a vast amount of user generated data streams. This project has support from the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society.

Smart Homes that Optimize Routine Effort

Recognizing and tracking objects around the home to optimize routine effort. This project has support from National ICT Australia, Victoria Laboratory.

Mobility Classification and Prediction

Modeling mobility to improve performance of mobile applications. This project has support from National ICT Australia, Victoria Laboratory.

Collaborative Repair of Wireless Broadcasts

Gossiping over a peer-to-peer network to mutually recover from wireless broadcast reception errors and thereby improve reception quality. This project is in collaboration with the Distributed Systems Group at VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This project has support from National ICT Australia, Victoria Laboratory.

GPGPU Simulations of Large Scale Systems

The use of GPGPU clusters for simulation of a biological plausible neural network. The project is in collaboration with the NeuroEngineering Laboratory and the Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan.

Decentralized Data Aggregation and Processing

Complex algorithms and protocols for decentralized systems. This project has support from National ICT Australia, Victoria Laboratory.

Academics

• Aaron Harwood
• Shanika Karunasekera

Research students

• Adam Twite
• Morteza Mousavi Barroudi
• Guan Gui
• Vijayalayan
• Thanes Velauthapillai
• Yang Liao
• Jad Abi-Samra

Previous research

Peer-to-Peer Networks and Applications Research Group

Are you looking to undertake a PhD or research project with us? Do you want more information about our research? Please contact:

Aaron Harwood
Department of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne Schools of Engineering and Information
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia