Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research

about

The Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research (LASR) conducts leading edge research in networking, security, distributed systems, and operating systems.

Our research is characeterized by a multi-disciplinary end-to-end approach that integrates ideas from these research fields. Located on the 6th floor of the ACES building, LASR is led by six faculty and employs over twenty graduate and undergraduate research assistants on diverse projects.

news

Kudos to Allen, Harry, Jeff, Lorenzo, and Mike for their paper BAR Primer which will appear in this year's DSN.

18th feb 2008

Congratulations to Lorenzo for being awarded the Texas Exes Teaching Award for Outstanding Professor in the College of Natural Sciences (article).

5th feb 2008

Congratulations to Allen for receiving this year's J.C. Browne Fellowship!

1st jan 2008

Congratulations to Navendu for being awarded a 2007-2008 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (more).

sept 2007

selected publications

  • Conference: ACM SIGMETRICS
  • Journal: ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking
  • Saint-Malo, France 2006
  • Han Hee Song, Lili Qiu and Yin Zhang. "NetQuest: A Flexible Framework for Large-Scale Network Measurement." [pdf]
  • Conference: Dependable Systems and Networks
  • Anchorage, Alaska 2008
  • Allen Clement, Harry C. Li, Jeff Napper, Jean-Philippe Martin, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin. "BAR Primer." [pdf]
  • Conference: International Symposium on Computer Architecture
  • Journal: IEEE Micro Top Pick
  • San Diego, California 2007
  • Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Aditya Bhandari, and Emmett Witchel. "MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory for an Operating System." [pdf]
  • Conference: Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
  • Journal: Communications of the ACM
  • Stevenson, Washington 2007
  • Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Hany E. Ramadan, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel. "TxLinux: Using and Managing Transactional Memory in an Operating System." [pdf] (Audience Choice Award)
  • Conference: Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
  • Stevenson, Washington 2007
  • Ramakrishna Kotla, Lorenzo Alvisi, Mike Dahlin, Allen Clement, Edmund L. Wong. "Zyzzyva: Speculative Byzanite Fault Tolerance." [pdf] (Best Paper Award)
  • Conference: International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
  • New York, New York 2007
  • Eric Rozner, Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Yogita Mehta, Lili Qiu, Mansoor Jafry. "ER: Efficient Retransmission Scheme for Wireless LANs." [pdf]

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