What we do
We conduct research in large-scale distributed computing. Our research approach is mainly experimental, focusing on design, deployment and evaluation of systems. In building large-scale distributed systems we explore a cooperative model in which (i) systems are made of symmetric components, (ii) have completely decentralized control and where (iii) all nodes participating in the system are expected to contribute resources in exchange for using available services.
News
- In the News: April 9, 2009 -- Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd. Check out more details here.
- In the News: November 24, 2008 -- Developing A Neighborhood Watch For The Internet about our Network Early Warning System (NEWS). Check out more details here.
- You can now look at a cool map of Ono coverage!
- Reusing P2P for early detection of network problems - A new plugin for Vuze/Azureus BitTorrent clients that allows peers to cooperatively detect network problems and unfriendly ISPs. You can download it from >>>here<<<. Join the 36,155 users who have already done so!
- Fabián has been invited to a panel in the Distributed Computing Industry Association Summit, in San Jose, CA. See some additional details.
- Taming the Torrent: A practical approach to reducing
cross-ISP traffic in P2P systems
David R. Choffnes and Fabián E. Bustamante.To appear in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2008., August 2008. Abstract - Fabián was awarded the E.T.S. Walton Award by the Science Foundation of Ireland! See some additional details.
- The set of Ono subscribers was growing at such a fast rate that it was making any "news" item "old news" pretty soon. So, here's the current, automatically updated, number of Ono subscribers: 759,069
- After a couple of weeks in the official list, our BitTorrent Ono plugin has already passed the 10,000-user mark!
- Our Ono plugin for BitTorrent, which uses CDN redirection information to identify nearby peers and potentially accelerate download, has been added to the official plugin list for the Azureus client.
- Fabián has been invited to participate on a panel/roundtable on Experimental Computer Science in Education, as part of the workshop on Experimental Computer Science.
- Fabián has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER award. The proposal was titled "Ensuring Sustainable Scalability for Globally-Distributed Systems".
- Fabián and Emre Kiciman co-chaired the second workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing, held in Jacksonville, Florida in June 2007.
Our Sponsors
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Neokast.com |
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John P. Murphy Foundation |




