Distributed Computing Group

mission statement

The distributed computing group is headed by Roger Wattenhofer. Our research interests include: foundations of distributed computing, peer-to-peer systems, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, social networks and applications, and various types of related topics. For a one-page overview see this brochure.

news

• StreamForge wins Venture Kick Business Competition.
• Roland Flury passes PhD exam. Congratulations!
• Our work on clock synchronization wins the PODC 2009 best paper award.
• Stephan Holzer joins our group. Welcome!
• Our group wins the ITET Summer Fight 2009. Whoohoo! We celebrate at our research retreat.
• Olga Goussevskaia passes PhD exam. Congratulations!
• Jasmin Smula joins our group. Welcome!
• New versions of BitThief and Music Explorer available.
• The book Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks by Dorothea Wagner and Roger Wattenhofer is available.
• Our web server hits the 5 terabyte download mark.

conferences

• Upcoming conferences where members of the group are in the program or organization committee:
• ICALP 2009: 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming , Rhodes, Greece, July 2009.
• PODC 2009: 28th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Calgary, Canada, August 2009.
• P2P 2009: 9th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Seattle, Washington, September 2009.
• SSS 2010: 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Lyon, France, November 2009.
• ICDCN 2010: 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Kolkata, India, January 2010.
• SOFSEM 2010: 36th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, January 2010.
• IPSN 2010: 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks , Stockholm, Sweden, April 2010.
• ICDCS 2010: 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems , Genoa, Italy, June 2010.
• ICALP 2010: 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming , Bordeaux, France, July 2010.
• PODC 2010: 28th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2009.
• Some more conferences we care about: in distributed computing, in networking and systems, in theory, or simply all (all data from conference search tool).