Distributed Systems

We believe in constructing realistic distributed systems (each taking several years of sustained experimental work) to demonstrate the applicability of our ideas on robust distributed computing. Our best known effort is the Arjuna distributed object transaction system (more than twelve years research effort, 85-98). Other systems include OpenFlow transactional workflow management system, NewTop group communication system for atomic broadcasts and Voltan replicated processing system capable of tolerating Byzantine failures. Results from work on Arjuna have been commercialised by our group’s spin-off company, Arjuna Technologies (www.arjuna.com). In 2000, Professor Shrivastava and his team received the British Computer Society Award for Arjuna. We have close working relationships with the Dependability group (Profs. Jones, Anderson) and the Grid research group of Prof. P. Watson, who directs the North East Regional e-Science Centre.

More information about the group can be found on their website.

People

Group Leader and Contact Point

Prof. Santosh Shrivastava, Professor

Academic Staff

Dr. Paul Ezhilchelvan, Lecturer

Dr. Lindsay Marshall, Senior Lecturer

Prof. Isi Mitrani, Professor

Dr. Graham Morgan, Lecturer

Mrs. Jennie Palmer, Demonstrator

Prof. Santosh Shrivastava, Professor

Dr. Neil Speirs, Senior Lecturer

Dr. Nigel Thomas, Lecturer

Dr. Alan Tully, Lecturer

Dr. Aad van Moorsel, Reader

Research Associates

Nick Cook

Antonio di Ferdinando

Giovanna Ferrari

Geoff Martin

Carlos Molina

Doug Palmer

Alexander Romanovsky

Rob Smith

Ellis Solaiman

John Warne

Simon Woodman

PhD Students

Richard Achmatowicz

Fahad Al-Humaidan

Khaled Alekeish

Mohammad Alsaeed

Marios-Simon Andreou

Yuhui Chen

David Cooper

Qurat-ul-Ain Inayat

Mohammad-Reza Khayyambashi

Achmad Kistijantoro

Christiaan Lamprecht

Nan Lin

Fengyun Lu

Simon Martin

Dimane Mpoeleng

Simon Parkin

Georgios Pitsilis

Paul Robinson

Christopher Smith

William Stephenson

Kier Storey

Massimo Strano

Einar Vollset

Rui Wang

Visiting Staff

Dr. Mark Little, Visiting Fellow

Mr. Emerson Ribeiro de Mello, Visitor

Dr. Richard Snow, Retired Member of Staff

Dr. Stuart Wheater, Visiting Fellow