Research Project Title
Creating a Foundation for Service Quality - Security, Performance, and Availability

Principal Investigators
Ravishankar K. Iyer

Unit #9
Project Overview

The goal of this research is to investigate and to create a foundation for multidimensional -including fault tolerance, security, and performance - validation of the Service Quality of complex computing systems. To address this challenge we study the complex nature and variety of unexpected conditions that can affect the system, and we explore the interactions between system fault tolerance, security, and performance and their combined impact on the Service Quality delivered by the system. In order to fully stress the system (jointly and along each dimension) we explore the feasibility of developing comprehensive stress generators capable of generating faults and security attacks, variable-intensity workloads, and emulated errors or failures.