SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 2006

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Monday 2nd October
8:35 – 9:50 Opening Session
Chair: Jörg Kaiser, University of Magdeburg, Germany
  • Welcome: Jie Xu, General Chair
  • Message from the Program Committee
Co-Chairs, Jörg Kaiser, Catherine Meadows & Huaimin Wang
  • Invited Keynote: George Chiu, IBM, USA
“Blue Gene/L, The Fastest and the Most Reliable Supercomputer in the world”
9:50 - 10:20 Coffee break
10:20 - 12:00 Session 1: FT Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures
Chair: Roberto Baldoni, Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
  • Christopher Peery, Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, and Thu D. Nguyen, “Reducing the Availability Management Overheads of Federated Content Sharing Systems”
  • Dmitry Brodsky, Michael J. Feeley, and Norman C. Hutchinson, “Topology Sensitive Replica Selection”
  • Gal Badishi, Germano Caronni, Idit Keidar, Raphael Rom, and Glenn Scott, “Deleting Files in the Celeste Peer-to-Peer Storage System”
  • Antonio Fernández, Chryssis Georgiou, Luis López, and Agustín Santos, “Reliably Executing Tasks in the Presence of Untrusted Entities”
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch break
13:15 - 14:30 Session 2: Security and High Assurance Systems I
Chair: Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  • XiaoFeng Wang and Michael K. Reiter, “WRAPS: Denial-of-Service Defense through Web Referrals”
  • Mudhakar Srivatsa, Arun Iyengar, Jian Yin, and Ling Liu, “A Client-Transparent Approach to Defend Against Denial of Service Attacks”
  • Paulo Sousa, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Veríssimo, and William H. Sanders, “Proactive Resilience Revisited: The Delicate Balance between Resisting Intrusions and Remaining Available”
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:15 Session 3: Autonomic, Pervasive Computing
Chair: Andrea Bondavalli, Univ. of Florence, Italy
  • Guenther Hoffmann and Miroslaw Malek, “Call Availability Prediction in a Telecommunication System: A Data Driven Empirical Approach”
  • Brahim Ayari, Abdelmajid Khelil, and Neeraj Suri, “FT-PPTC: An Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Commit Protocol for Mobile Environments”
  • Salvatore Distefano, Marco Scarpa, and Antonio Puliafito, “Modeling Distributed Computing System Reliability with DRBD”
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 18:00 Session 4: Fault-Tolerant Middleware and Protocols
Chair: Bojan Cukic, West Virginia Univ., USA
  • S. Pleisch, T. Clouser, M. Nesterenko, and A. Schiper, “DRIFT: Efficient Message Ordering in Ad Hoc Networks Using Virtual Flooding.”
  • Barry Porter, Francois Taiani, and Geoff Coulson, “Generalised Repair for Overlay Networks.”
  • Nigamanth Sridhar, “Decentralized Local Failure Detection in Dynamic Distributed Systems”
19:00 Conference Reception
Tuesday 3rd October
9:35 - 10:15 Session 5: Distributed Algorithms
Chair: Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
  • Adnan Agbaria, “Improvements and Reconsideration of Distributed Snapshot Protocols”
  • R. Baldoni, M. Malek, A. Milani, and S. Tucci Piergiovanni, “Weakly-Persistent Causal Object in Dynamic Distributed Systems”
  • Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, and Amar Phanishayee, “PLATO: Predictive Latency-Aware Total Ordering”
  • Tiemi Christine Sakata and Islene Calciolari Garcia, “Non-Blocking Synchronous Checkpointing Based on Rollback-Dependency Trackability”
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 Session 6: Security and High Assurance Systems II
Chair: Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, PRC
  • Dominik Grolimund, Luzius Meisser, Stefan Schmid, and Roger Wattenhofer, “Cryptree:  A Folder Tree Structure for Cryptographic File Systems”
  • Bob Mungamuru, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Subhasish Mitra, “How to Safeguard Your Sensitive Data”
  • Timo Warns, Felix C. Freiling, and Wilhelm Hasselbring, “Solving Consensus Using Structural Failure Models”
12:00 - 13:15 Lunch break
13:15 – 14:30 Session 7: Performance and Quality Assessment of
        Distributed Algorithms
Chair: Mirek Malek, Humboldt University, Germany
  • Julien Sopena and Luciana Arantes, “Performance Evaluation of a Fair Fault-Tolerant Mutual Exclusion Algorithm”
  • Henrique Moniz, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Miguel Correia, and Paulo Verissimo, “Experimental Comparison of Local and Shared Coin Randomized Consensus Protocols”
  • Alessandro Daidone, Felicita Di Giandomenico, and Andrea Bondavalli, “Hidden Markov Models as a Support for Diagnosis: Formalization of the Problem and Synthesis of the Solution”
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:15 Session 8: Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Operating
        Systems
Chair: Xavier Defago, JAIST, Japan
  • Hans P. Reiser, Franz J. Hauck, Jörg Domaschka, Rüdiger Kapitza, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, “Consistent Replication of Multithreaded Distributed Objects”
  • Edward Curley, Jonathan Anderson, Binoy Ravindran, and E. D. Jensen, “Recovering from Distributable Thread Failures with Assured Timeliness in Real-Time Distributed Systems”
  • Takahiro Shinagawa, “SegmentShield: Exploiting Segmentation Hardware for Protecting against Buffer Overflow Attacks”
16:15 – 16:30 Presentation on SRDS 2007
19:00 Conference Banquet
  • After dinner speaker Prof. Brian Randall, University of Newcastle, UK
Wednesday 4th October
8:20 - 10:00 Session 9: Fault-Tolerant Services
Chair: Nuno Neves, University of Lisboa, Portugal
  • Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, and Robbert van Renesse, “A Scalable Services Architecture”
  • Manish Marwah, Shivakant Mishra, and Christof Fetzer, “Fault-Tolerant and Scalable TCP Splice and Web Server Architecture”
  • Roy Friedman and Erez Hadad, “Adaptive Batching for Replicated Servers”
  • Gang Xu , Cristian Borcea, and Liviu Iftode, “Satem: Trusted Service Code Execution across Transactions”
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 10: Panel: Open and Challenging Research Issues
     in Distributed Computing
Chair: Edgar Nett, Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany
  • John Davies, BAE Systems, UK
  • Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University, China
  • Kane Kim, University of California, Irvine, USA
  • Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • Santosh Shrivastava, Univ. of Newcastle, UK
  • Santosh Shrivastava, “Coordination in Loosely Coupled Systems“
  • K. H. Kim, “Systematic Composition and Analyzability of Dependable Networked Embedded Computing Systems”
  • John K. Davies, “Open and Challenging Research Issues in Dependable Distributed Computing: A Personal View from the Defence Industry”
 
12:00 – 14:15 Lunch break
14:10 – 14:30 Session 11: Distributed Fault-Tolerant Multimedia Systems
Chair: Nik Looker, University of Leeds, UK
  • Thadpong Pongthawornkamol and Indranil Gupta, “AVCast: New Approaches For Implementing Availability-Dependent Reliability for Multicast Receivers”
  • Sébastien Monnet Ramsés Morales Gabriel Antoniu Indranil Gupta, “MOve: Design of an Application-Malleable Overlay”
  • Matthias Wiesmann, Péter Urbán and Xavier Défago, ”An SNMP based failure detection service”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:15 Session 12: Fault-Tolerant Database Systems
Chair: Santosh Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK
  • J. Salas, R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patino-Martinez, and B. Kemme, “Lightweight Reflection for Middleware-based Database Replication”
  • Vladimir Stankovic and Peter Popov, “Improving DBMS Performance through Diverse Redundancy”
  • Francesc D. Muñoz-Escoí, Jerónimo Pla-Civera, Ma Idoia Ruiz-Fuertes, Luis Irún-Briz, Hendrik Decker, J. Enrique Armendáriz-Íñigo, José Ramón González de Mendívil,  “Managing Transaction Conflicts in Middleware-Based Database Replication Architectures”
16:15 Wrap Up and Final Remarks of the General Chair
 

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