Alexander L. Wolf Research Group

University of California, Santa Cruz

How can distributed, networked services be architected to remain dependable under varying workloads and failures? The group develops and evaluates service-based systems, content-based networking, and cloud/data-center networking projects to study scalable and resilient distributed architectures. The researchers build and analyze information-centric networking and publish experimental systems such as the Siena publish/subscribe communication system for content-based messaging. The lab investigates configuration management, software architecture, and tools for survivability to understand mechanisms for fault tolerance, recovery, and secure deployment. The group uses distributed experimentation frameworks and automation (for example, the Weevil automation framework) to measure networked system behavior under realistic conditions.