Research

Current Research Grants

• NSF. CSR-Large: Collaborative Research: CommonSense -- A Distributed Mobile System for Socially-Collaborative Environmental Monitoring. $1,550,000. 9/1/09 - 8/31/13. Li Shang, Robert Dick (PIs) and Michael Hannigan, Qin Lv (co-PIs).


• NSF. CDI-Type I: Data Rods: Enabling Time-Series Analysis of Massive Multi-Modality Cryospheric Data. $576,514. 11/1/09 - 10/31/12. Julienne Stroeve (PI) and David Gallaher, Qin Lv (co-PIs).


• NSF. CiC: Towards a Mobile Cloud Computing Framework to Support Next-Generation Mobile Applications. $370,000, 7/1/2011-6/30/2013. Richard Han (PI) and Qin Lv, Shivakant Mishra (co-PIs).

Ongoing Research Projects

• Data-Oriented Mobile Social Computing
  • Distributed mobile data mamagement
  • Social data analysis and recommendation
  • Social networking in rural communitities
  
  
• Data-Oriented Scientific Discovery
  • Environmental sensing of air pollutants
  • Time-series analysis of cryospheric data
  • Energy storage system design for transportation electrification

Previous Research Projects

• CASS: Content-Aware Search Systems


• Peer-to-peer networks


• Storage systems
  • DBox: a file server on top of Boxwood
  • PeerStore: distributed content-addressable storage
  
  
• Networking
  • Network performance monitoring and optimization
  • Self-organized networks