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C0PE: Consistent 0-administration Personal Environment

Soon, each of us will own dozens of information access devices. Today, managing a 40-machine network requires a full-time expert system administrator to manage security, perform back-ups, install applications, upgrade security, and so on.

How can a non-expert user effortlessly manage dozens of personal devices?

C0PE Approach

  • 0-administration: Personal Virtual Intranet

    How do you build a self-containing network architecture that provides transparent, secure communication across a changing network topology, and that allows a user to add and remove devices and services?

  • Consistent Data Access

    How do you make data "location independent" so that a user can access their data from any of their devices?

Implementing a C0PE: System Components

  1. Device initiation into the system
  2. Device Location
  3. Secure Communication Layer
  4. Access Policy Maintenance

C0PE Research Links

Initial Work on C0PE Project

Representative Publications:

  1. Praveen Yalagandula, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin and Harrick Vin, C0PE: Consistent 0-Administration Personal Environment, Sixth International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems (WORDS), Rome, Italy, January 2001. [ Abstract | PS | PDF ]

  2. P. Yalagandula, A. Garg, M. Dahlin, L. Alvisi, and H.M. Vin, Transparent Mobility with Minimal Infrastructure, Technical Report TR-01-30, Dept of Computer Sciences, Univ of Texas at Austin, July 2001. [ Abstract | PS | PDF ]
Team Members: Praveen Yalagandula, Amit Garg, Lorenzo Alvisi, Mike Dahlin, Harrick Vin (Alumni: Sumit Garg, Anupam Rastogi)