Systems & networking
Researching and inventing new technologies for next-generation infrastructures and platforms for sensors, devices and the cloud.
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Privacy-Friendly Smart Metering
Many smart metering proposals threaten users’ privacy by disclosing fine-grained consumption data to utilities. We have designed protocols that allow for precise billing of consumption while not revealing any consumption information to third parties. We…
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Horton – Querying Large Distributed Graphs
Horton was a research project to enable querying large distributed graphs. It consists of a graph library built on top of Orleans that targets hosting large graphs in a data center. The library provides a querying…
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Orleans – Virtual Actors
Project “Orleans” invented the Virtual Actor abstraction, which provides a straightforward approach to building distributed interactive applications, without the need to learn complex programming patterns for handling concurrency, fault tolerance, and resource management. Orleans applications scale-up automatically…