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 Cambridge Systems & Networking
The research of the Cambridge Systems and Networking group at Microsoft
Research Cambridge, covers the broad span of systems and networks research, ranging
from improving the performance of individual computers through to designing novel
distributed systems that can scale to hundreds of thousand of hosts. We are a
multi-disciplinary group that designs and builds systems, analyses them, and uses them.
The group has three overlapping areas that reflect the main themes of
research within the group: Systems, Networking, and Distributed Systems.
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Distributed Systems
We have active research areas centred around peer-to-peer systems including distributed hashtables (DHTs), Key-Based Routing (KBR), distributed databases, and social networking systems. We are also interested in Byzantine fault-tolerance in distributed systems. |
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Networking
Our interests range from theoretical modelling of TCP, wireless MACs and worm epidemics, to practical topics in overlay networking, file swarming, topology discovery, bandwidth probing, and network management. Our indoor wireless mesh test bed (over 100 nodes on 4 floors) is believed to be the world’s largest. |
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Operating Systems
We also research a broad range of system-wide topics, for example worm containment through code analysis, statistical mining of OS and application defect data to improve dependability, and systems-level performance analysis and prediction. |
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Social Networking
We are interested in the broad space of networking applications where the actions of humans are a critical factor for efficient system operation – social networking. |
People
Primary Contact: Peter Key , Paul Barham or Ant Rowstron
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Barham,
Paul |
Black,
Richard |
Castro,
Miguel |
Costa,
Manuel |
Donnelly,
Austin |
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Elnikety,
Sameh
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Gkantsidis,
Christos |
Gunawardena,
Dinan |
Harris,
Tim |
Hodson,
Orion |
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Isaacs,
Rebecca |
Karagiannis,
Thomas |
Key,
Peter |
Martin,
Jean-Philippe |
Murphy,
Brendan |
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Narayanan,
Dushyanth |
O'Shea,
Greg |
Proutiere,
Alexandre
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Radunovic,
Bozidar |
Rowstron,
Ant |
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Thereska,
Eno |
Vagena,
Zografoula |
Vojnovic,
Milan |
Zahn,
Thomas |
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Interns and Post-docs 2007
- Fabian Suchanek
Max Planck Institute fur Informatik
- Guner Celik
MIT
- Giuseppe Valente
UC Irvine
- Elias Athanasopoulos
Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (FORTH)
- Enrique Vallejo Gutierrez
University of Cantabria
- Wenjun Hu
Cambridge University
- Denisa Ghita
EPFL
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- Alessandro Duminuco
Eurecom
- Andreas Johansson
TU-Darmstadt
- Cristian Zamfir
University of Glasgow
- Cristian Cadar
Stanford
- Hulya Seferoglu
UC Irvine
- Damon Mosk-Aoyama
Stanford University
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Alumni
- Ayalvadi Ganesh
- Anne-Marie Kermarrec
- Richard Mortier
- Marc Shapiro
- Dave Stewart
- Neil Stratford
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- Pablo Rodriguez-Rodriguez
- Laurent Massoulié
- Derek 'Mac' McAuley
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Microsoft Product Influence
- The Windows Vista Network Map feature came directly from our work on topology discovery, and the underlying LLTD protocol was initially designed by us.
- In collaboration with Lancaster University we ported an IPv6 stack to Windows CE 4.1, providing Microsoft’s first supported IPv6 stack; we also developed the Mobile IPv6 Tech Preview release for Windows XP SP1 and Windows CE 4.2, fully compliant with RFC3775 and RFC3776.
- Windows XP SP2 limits the number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connections to slow the spread of worms; we helped the networking product team determine suitable parameters for this feature.
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