The Mobile Distributed Computing Lab in the School of Computing at Southern Illinois University conducts research in mobile distributed computing systems, healthcare digital twins, and IoT. The lab focuses on advancing the development of next-generation artificial intelligence-enabled mobile distributed systems and transforming healthcare through the innovative application of artificial intelligence and IoT technologies.

Some representative topics we are actively exploring include:

Mobile Cloud and Edge Computing
Computation offloading . Power management . Network performance . Mobile cloud applications

Mobile Ad Hoc Cloud Computing
Resource management . Power management . Process migration . Failure management . Mobility management

Healthcare Digital Twins
Data collection platforms . Network management . Disease management . Prediction strategies

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Routing protocols . Multi-hop communication in multi-layer network environments

Internet of Things
Object representation, monitoring, and discovery mechanisms . Network management protocols