About the DARTS Lab

The DARTS (Distributed and Adaptive Real-Time Systems) Lab performs experimental systems research in distributed systems, including mobile and wireless environments, ad-hoc and mesh networks, sensor networks, and high-performance computing environments. The focus of our work is on the provision of Quality-of-Service (QoS) in such environments (e.g., latency management for real-time systems) and the design and implementation of adaptive mechanisms to control QoS. For example, our work studies cooperative wireless networks where we study cooperation at both the application-level and system-level. Application-level cooperation refers to distributed systems where members share information (e.g., location, sensor data, multimedia streams) and resources (processing, networking, storage) to support applications and users in achieving their goals. System-level cooperation refers to the underlying system components in a distributed system working together to support applications or to improve their performance. This includes multi-constraint routing in multi-hop networks, distributed energy management techniques, and end-to-end error recovery mechanisms that are resource- and QoS-aware.
Toward these ends, our group is building numerous system components, middleware tools, and applications, including NDMesh (several mesh network test beds), Impresario (a sensor network), and SPIRIT (a resource and information sharing infrastructure). Explore our lab's web site to obtain more information.