Project : sardes
Section: Application Domains
Keywords : telecommunications, multimedia, embedded systems, electronic commerce, systems administration, power supply.
Application Domains
Sardes develops generic tools for distributed applications, in the form of middleware, system kernels, and information servers. These tools are useful in application domains that have one or more of the following properties.
Cooperation using shared distributed information;
Mobility of users, information and services;
Need for dynamic adaptation of infrastructures or applications;
Use of high performance information servers.
The main actual application domains are:
telecommunications : administration of large scale networks, servers and caches for the Web, management of configurable added value services;
power supply : administration and monitoring of power supply networked equipment, e.g. uninterrupted power supply units.
embedded computing: development of custom made kernels for specific applications (robotics, real time), dynamically reconfigurable kernels;
multimedia applications: dynamic adaptation of a videoconferencing system for use by mobile clients;
electronic commerce: flexible access to remote services by mobile users, efficient transaction management.
