Under the leadership of Dr. Mohsen Sharifi, the Distributed Systems Lab (DSL) is a place for research and development activities which cover different aspects of the theory and practice of distributed systems in a system software setting, such as the following:

           • Cluster and Grid Technologies
           • Virtual Machines and Virtualization Tecnologies
           • Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
           • Autonomous Computing and Systems
           • P2P Computing and Systems
           • Pervasive and ubiquitous Computing and Systems
           • Distributed Systems Middleware
           • Distributed Algorithms
           • Reflective Distributed Systems
           • Adaptive Distributed Systems
           • Service Oriented Architectures and Infrastructures
           • Web Services and Web Engineering
           • Dependability and Fault Tolerance
           • Computer Security