My main areas of interest
are Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, and Computer Networks.
I am interested in the performance issues in distributed platforms,
Internet servers, and hosting
environments,
particularly with respect to
(i) providing system support for data and compute-intensive
applications, such as Internet, multimedia, and Web services, as well
as scientific computing, and
(ii) making these systems self-managing and reliable.
Some of the important issues for such systems include achieving
scalability and high performance while providing service
differentiation and QoS guarantees to the overlying applications and
services. In addition, the complexity of these systems require ease of
management and adaptation to changing workloads and service demands.
Finally, frequent and wide-spread failures require greater fault
tolerance and reliability. My
research involves developing resource management techniques geared
towards achieving these goals.
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