Andreas Polze

Prof. Andreas Polze's group Operating Systems and Middleware develops programming paradigms, design patterns and description methods for large, distributed component systems. The group’s work focuses on the integration of middleware with embedded systems and the predictability of their behavior with respect to real-time capability, fault tolerance and safety.

Research

Today's Commercial off-the-shelf computer systems (COTS) typically are being optimized for high performance which often leads to unsatisfactory user experience for internet-wide distributed systems. Predictable end-to-end behavior of distributed real-time services is not a central issue. With growing system complexity, wide-spread distribution and new fault scenarios, it is a big challenge to provide reliable, guaranteed in-time services with middleware-based systems.

The research activity of our group is concerned with paradigms, design patterns and implementation techniques for enhancing middleware technology for predictable computing. One central issue concerns the open research question how far middleware technology can be pushed into the domain of embedded computing, thus linking embedded control systems with standard middleware.

A number of research projects are centered around the configuration problem for component software, specifically the "online replacement of software components" and the use of commercial off-the-shelf operating systems in control systems.

Current Activities

• Fontane Lab
  • Current topics: SaPiMa / Fontane

• DCL Lab

  • Current topics: Remote laboratory, Phoenix, Lego.NET
  • Previous topics: VetTrend, Loom.NET, Rotor, DISCOURSE
  • ### InstantLab

• Current topics: Windows Research Kernel (WRK)

• Previous topics: Version VFS

• Parallel and Distributed Lab

• Current topics: The FutureSOC lab, Intel SCC, IPv6

• Previous topics: Adaptive Services Grid, Grid Computing, 64-Bit Laboratory