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

• Job offer for PhD Students in Distributed Algorithms (more details).
• Android music player/explorer museek is available. Check the youtube video.
• 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:
• 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.
• AlgoTel 2010: 12emes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Telecommunications , Belle Dune, France, June 2010.
• WRAWN 2010: Workshop on Realistic Models for Algorithms in Wireless Networks, Bergen, Norway, June 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 2010.
• SocialCom 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 2010.
• MobiHoc 2010: 11th Eleventh ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, Chicago, Illinois, September 2010.
• IPIN 2010: International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2010.
• Some more conferences we care about: in distributed computing, in networking and systems, in theory, or simply all (all data from conference search tool).