Support network

The group will also benefit from the vast network of links established during earlier work with many of the important players in relevant open source tools. Indeed, Dominique Toupin and Michel Dagenais, and their teams at Ericsson and Polytechnique are regularly collaborating with several Linux kernel developers, technical staff at several major distributions such as Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu and Debian, GCC and GDB developers, and important groups at Ericsson involved in OpenSAF and in the Eclipse Tracing and Monitoring Framework. This insures that they can access the foremost experts on specific aspects of the algorithms used in these tools, can get help in adapting these tools when needed, and can more easily disseminate the results of their research for eventual integration into these tools.