Department of Computer Science 4
Distributed Systems and Operating Systems

Both our group's research and our lectures target several areas of computing systems and software engineering as well as their intersections in the following aspects:

• Composability and configurability of application-oriented, versatile and/or type-safe system software. See our SPLC '12, CPE '12, ISORC '11, SPLC '10, and USENIX '09 papers.
• Economy with regard to energy consumption by means of a resource-aware operation of computing systems. See our HotPower '11 and IWSN '11 papers.
• Reliability in networked/distributed systems (on the basis of resource-efficient fault and intrusion tolerance) and trustability in customized operating systems. See our LCTES '13, HotDep '12, EDCC '12, EuroSys '12, EuroSys '11, and NDSS '11 papers.
• Timeliness in and provision of a migration path between time- and event-triggered real-time systems. See our SPE '11 and CASES '09 papers.
• Specialization of system software using the example of dedicated operating systems. See our AOSD '11, SFMA '11, RTSS '11, and RTSS '09 papers.
• Concurrency and the coordination of cooperation and competition of simultaneous processes. See our HotPar '11, PDCN '10, and SIES '09 papers.

In organizational respects, the group incorporates the Chair in Distributed Systems and Operating Systems in the Computer Science Department of the School of Engineering at FAU. About two-thirds of the group's staff is supported through third-party funds, mainly by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Furthermore, we maintain research cooperations and ongoing projects with engineering industry such as Siemens Automation & Drive, Siemens Corporate Technology, and Elektrobit, amongst others.

The group is headed by Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat and additionally comprises 3 assistant professors, 23 postgraduates (scientific staff), 4 staff members, and 26 research students, currently (see People at CS 4).

• June 2013: Isabelle Stilkerich is going to LCTES 2013 in Seattle, Washington to present "A JVM for Soft-Error-Prone Embedded Systems".
• May 2013: Purnima Singhal from NIT - Agartala (India) joined to RTSC-team for a three-month internship. During her internship Purnima works on the integration of the Absint aiT WCET-Analyzer into the RTSC.
• December 2012: Wanja Hofer and Daniel Lohmann are going to RTSS 2012 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to present "Sloth on Time: Efficient Hardware-Based Scheduling for Time-Triggered RTOS". After the conference there will be the RTAS'13 PC meeting, which Daniel is going to attend.
• November 2012: Martin Hoffmann, Fabian Scheler and Peter Ulbrich will take part in the "Diskussionskreis Fehlertoleranz" in Nuremberg.
• October 2012: Reinhard Tartler is going to HotDep 2012 in Hollywood, CA, USA, to present an approach for "Automatic OS Kernel TCB Reduction by Leveraging Compile-Time Configurability".