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About the institute *
Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS, at that time IPVR) was founded in 1989, when on initiative of professor Andreas Reuter there was made a decision about the foundation of an institute, which could be basis for the research in the area of parallel and distributed computation.
With time five departments were created in the institute: "Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems" (head - Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bernhard Mitschang), "Image Understanding" (head - Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Paul Levi), "Integrated Systems Engineering", "Distributed Systems" (head - Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h. c. Kurt Rothermel) and "Simulation of Large Systems".
Today 69 people work in IPVS, 56 of them are scientists. The group of junior members of research staff numbers a bit more than 62 people. The number of national and international projects makes 25 projects of different size and duration. This shows the competence of the institute in realization of research.
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VS. Main Areas of Research.
Supported by the rapidly proceeding development of network technology, distributed systems are used in more and more application domains. Conventional system and communication architectures cannot always fulfil the various demands of these new applications in an acceptable manner. In order to keep up with this development, the research activities of the distributed systems group concentrate on the communication technology aspects of new application areas. The activities are not limited to the abstract consideration of system aspects, but also include practical distributed applications. Currently, the research of the distributed systems group is focused on the following fields:
Mobile Computing
Actually our main field of interest in this domain centers on mobile context related systems. Basic mechanisms and concepts are studied, specifically in the field of location-aware applications, which take into account the actual position of mobile objects based on a complex world model. Presently, our research concentrates on location management and location-aware communication. Another main field of research deals with mobile self-organizing systems, like e.g. those produced by Ad-Hoc-Networks. Software architectures and adaptation routines are developed capable of fulfilling the dynamics requirements of such systems. Further, communication mechanisms are addressed, whereby the application of inter vehicle communication plays an important role. And finally, concepts and procedures of distributed data management in mobile self-organizing systems are studied.
Distributed multimedia systems
Our research activities deal with system functions for distributed multimedia systems, whereby our main interest centers on topics of communication and synchronization. Another focus of our research is on multimedia document systems, with particular emphasis on specification languages and scheduling algorithms.
Security and Privacy
In this field, our research activities cover a wide range. Starting from abstract questions, like e.g. reliability modeling, studying and consequently developing reliability creating systems including the required technology, right up to security aspects in ad-hoc-networks. The UniTEC project and the security research linked to the CANU project, both form part of these activities..
System Performance Evaluation
The aim of these research activities is to provide a realistic performance analysis of communication protocols and distributed system components. The emulation of various network topologies and features is based on a high-performance cluster system. The subject of studies is to create an emulation environment that will facilitate a largely automated installation and configuration of the system to be tested and of its runtime environment.
Telecooperation
The research activities are concentrated on the system-level support functions of cooperative applications between several people, both in the same and in distributed systems. Starting from a general cooperation model, basic methods for computer supported cooperative work are being developed. Different types of asynchronous as well as synchronous cooperation are being considered to allow a flexible and unrestricted combination of these types. In order to support flexible company structures, especially the increasingly important organization and process structure, as well as the growing mobility of the users, e.g. in the field of teaching, a high degree of flexibility of the planned cooperation systems are required.
New Facilities in Education
The research in this area focuses on the question, how new technologies can improve education process. On the one hand, it concerns the content of study process in multimedia form and on the other hand - the use of notebooks, wireless net-infrastructure and special software as Blended Learning.
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