Post-Doctoral Training in Mobile Information Access

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

Investigators

Abstract

EIA-0000484 Satyanarayanan, Mahadev Carnegie Mellon University Post-doctoral Training in Mobile Information Access CISE Postdoctoral Associates in Experimental Computer Science: Postdoctoral Training in Mobile Information Access Postdoctoral training in the broad area of mobile information access will be offered that has four research thrusts: 1) Systematic and thorough evaluation of the performance characteristics of the Odyssey mobile computing platform and the Coda File System, including identification of appropriate performance metrics, design of synthetic workloads and benchmarks, instrumentation to collect usage data, and analysis of results. 2) Exploring the scalability of Odyssey and Coda involving the design of carefully controlled experiments that stress the limits of these systems. 3) Designing and implementing mechanisms in Odyssey and Coda that opportunistically exploit compute servers and intermediate caches in the infrastructure close to a mobile computer. 4) Developing a methodology and a set of techniques and tools for generating system configurations that are well-fitted to the unique characteristics of mobile computing hardware. In addition, opportunities will be offered to participate in the mentoring of graduate and undergraduate students and guest lecture in courses.