Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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CoCoNet
The CoCoNet project arises from the quest to have the best of both worlds, specifically, having the operational benefits of centralization along with the performance benefits of distribution.
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Nericell
NEWS: The ACM SenSys 2008 paper on Nericell received both the ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award and the ACM SenSys Test-of-Time Award in 2019. The Nericell project focuses on road and traffic monitoring using an ensemble of…
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SixthSense
RFID based enterprise intelligence The vision of the SixthSense project in the MNS group at Microsoft Research India is the workplace or home of the future where computing is extended to encompass non-computing entities such as…
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NetPrints
Diagnosing Home Network Misconfigurations using Shared Knowledge The Problem Today’s home network is typically a collection of several devices and applications. While the broadband modem acts as the home’s window to the Internet world, there…
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VirtualWiFi
VirtualWiFi (previously known as MultiNet) is a virtualization architecture for wireless LAN (WLAN) cards.
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Networking Over White Spaces (KNOWS)
The next generation of wireless networks will include software defined radios, cognitive radios, and multi-radio systems which will co-exist harmoniously while operating over a very wide range of frequencies. Under the umbrella of the KNOWS…
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BIG
Building an automated operating system for large-scale data centers hosting third party applications. The BIG project looked at the problem of completely automating the deployment and operations of hosted applications in large-scale data centers. One grand…