Pervasive and Service Computing

A research group within the Innovation Through Broadband Research Cluster.

With the rising size and complexity of software applications and data stores, attention has turned to harnessing sparsely distributed computing resources (sometimes across organisations) to complete tasks within reasonable time frames and within budget. Cloud computing is a realisation of computing as a utility – clients use IT resources accessible via the Internet in the same manner as real world utilities such as power, water and gas.

Cloud computing has been made possible by combining the following major areas such as:
(1) services and SOA – basic components of the whole infrastructure and base architecture on how resources are offered to clients and maintained by service providers,
(2) virtualisation – the provision of any required platform through emulation thus not being limited to the hardware (and software) used to construct the cloud itself,
(3) SLAs – agreements formulated to protect both service providers and clients, and
(4) Internet technologies – specifically Web services thus providing a platform independent communication infrastructure.

Despite only using tried and true solutions and methodologies, Cloud computing is pervasive – it presence has caused a major rethink in how IT infrastructures are provided and paid for. Such areas include (to name a couple) interoperability between two or more completely different clouds and how to enforce security and law obligations if the cloud spans more than once state or country.

PASC is a research priority area within the School of Information Technology at Deakin University to offer pervasive and service computing that spans and exploits several areas including distributed systems; cluster and cloud computing; operating systems and middleware for distributed systems; autonomic computing; and virtualization.

The mission of PASC group is to carry out excellent, innovative and significant research that creates new knowledge of and adds to the existing knowledge of services, clouds and their management.

Group Coordinator

Professor Andrzej Goscinski
Phone: +61 3 5227 2088
Email: andrzej.goscinski@deakin.edu.au

Academic and Research Staff

Dr Michael Hobbs
Associate Professor Jemal Abawajy
Dr Robert Dew

Collaborations

Professor David Abramson - Monash University
Professor Raj Buyya, The University of Melbourne
Professor Danuta Mendelson, Deakin University
Professor Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselear Politechnic Institute
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang,IBM
Professor Ling Liu, Georgia University of Technology
Professor Peter Brezany, The University of Vienna
Professor Amnon Barak - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Jacek Kitowski - SSUS&T
Dr Christine Morin - INRIA
Dr Adam Wong
Dr Michael Brock

Postgraduate Students

Jia (Jackie) Rong
Philip Church
Izzat Abdul Aziz
Soon Keow Chong
Fahed Matar Al Neyadi
Raja Al-Jaljouli
Harinda Fernando
Shivali Goel
Mohd Farhan Md Fudzee
Hairulnizam Mahdin
Ahadur Rahaman

Research Projects

• SOA and Web services – theory and development
• Service discovery and selection
• Dynamical brokers
• Management of Web service based systems
• Cloud interoperability
• Resource management and load balancing
• Storage systems
• Pervasive and Networked Systems (Mobile, Wireless Network, Sensor Networks, Grid, Cluster, and P2P)
• e-Science and e-Business Technologies and Applications
• Performance Analysis and Evaluation
• Cloud Security