SGER: Planning Grant Proposal: Identifying Grand Challenges in Distributed Systems

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge MA

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Abstract

As part of a larger effort on defining a global research infrastructure for CISE, this planning report, authored by a group of leading researchers in distributed computer systems, identifies a number of challenging road blocks in engineering and deploying distributed applications on an Internet scale. The report identifies promising technology opportunities, research directions, and requirements for the network and application layer to remove the roadblocks.