CS237 Distributed Systems Middleware

Spring 2023

Project Ideas

• SCALE: The safe community awareness and alerting network (short slides)
• Perpetual operations in IoT Deployments for Smart Communities (short slides)
• Resilient IoT Data Exchange Edge Services with Application and Network Awareness (short slides)
• Publish-subscribe Systems and Big Active Data (BAD) (short slides)

Here is a list of high level topics for class projects.

• IoT middleware for smart buildings/ smart healthcare
• IoT Edge Middleware to address a challenge such as (resilience, energy efficiency, or latency... etc)
• Middleware for mobile platforms
• Cloud-based middleware platforms
• Implementation of Caching and Replication techniques in middleware environments.
• Integrating fault-tolerance protocols into distributed middleware infrastructures.
• Storage and I/O management in distributed middleware
• Customizability and Reflection in middleware systems
• Event services in distributed environments
• Formal Specification of Distributed Systems Middleware
• Middleware for Mobile Environments - e.g. wireless, satellite
• Middleware Services for Grid Computing and High Performance Computing systems
• System support for sensor networks
• Middleware for Real-time Embedded Systems
• Middleware for MM Systems - admission control, resource reservation etc.
• Policies for Resource Discovery in wide-area environments
• Implementation of Flexible Naming Techniques in DSM
• Integration of video and network protocols - e.g. MPEG/ATM, MPEG/IP.
• QoS based middleware, e.g. integration of QoS-sensitive server policies and network protocols.
• Group communication facilities in distributed systems middleware.
• Incorporation of security policies in middleware environments.
• Middleware support for virtual environments and 3D graphics/animation.
• Applications , development of web services, e.g. billing service