Distributed Systems Group

The Distributed Systems Group is part of the Department of Computer Science and since October 2025 headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Distler. Established among the first groups when the WIAI faculty was founded, and initially under the name Chair for Practical Computer Science, the group is dedicated to distributed systems for over 20 years.

• Micro Replication for Dependable Network-based Services (Mirador)
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Time- and Energy-Constrained Applications Under Memory Bounds (BFTeam)
• Universal Cloud-Edge-IoT Orchestration
• Evaluating the Quality of Cloud-native Software Architectures