Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

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Real-Time and Distributed Systems (RADS) Research Centre

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We are in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and we study distributed applications, distributed systems and networks, including software engineering and  architecture, and system performance .

Director: Shikharesh Majumdar

Members:

• Samuel Ajila
• Don Bailey
• John Chinneck
• Greg Franks
• Thomas Kunz
• David Lau
• Chung-Horng Lung
• Eric Parsons (Ericsson)
• Trevor Pearce
• Dorina Petriu
• Gabriel Wainer
• Marc St-Hilaire
• Murray Woodside (Co-Founder)
• George Yee (Govt. of Canada)
• Richard Fei Yu

Research Areas

• Software Engineering
• Software Performance Engineering
• System Optimization
• Resource Management
• Middleware
• Security
• System Modeling and Simulation
• Mobile and Wireless Systems

Selected Publications

Downloads

We have material on Layered Queueing Networks, which we use to build analytic software performance models:

• A tutorial on the principal concepts,
• A User Manual for LQNS, our software system for analytic and simulation solutions
• Extensive documentation of LQNS and ancilliary software tools that work with it, for example to create a pattern of experiments over parameter values,
• A page for licensing and downloading LQNS