SRDS08 FINAL PROGRAM



Monday, October 6, 2008

8:30AM - 9:30AM Opening

9:30AM - 10:00AM Keynote: "Distributed System: The new frontier for connected cars" Nevio Di Giusto (President of FIAT Research Center)

11:00AM - 1:00PM Middleware and Embedded Systems 

Assuring Resilient Time Synchronization
Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli and Lorenzo Falai, University of Florence, Italy.

Application-level Recovery Mechanisms for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing
Devdatta Kulkarni and Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA.

SeNDORComm: An Energy-Efficient Priority-Driven Communication Layer for Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks
Vinaitheerthan Sundaram, Saurabh Bagchi, Yung-Hsiang Lu and Zhiyuan Li, Purdue University, USA.

Analytical assessment of the precision degradation caused by faults in a fault-tolerant master/slave clock synchronization service for CAN
Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas and Julián Proenza, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain.


1:00PM - 2:00PM Lunch Break

2:00PM - 4:00PM Security in Distributed Systems

ALPS: Authenticating Live Peer-to-Peer Streams
Remo Meier and Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

The Search for Efficiency in Automated Intrusion Response for Distributed Applications
Yu-Sung Wu, Gaspar Modelo-Howard, Bingrui Foo, Saurabh Bagchi and Eugene Spafford, Purdue University, USA.

Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
Zhang Fu, Marina Papatriantafilou and Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Protecting BitTorrent: design and evaluation of effective countermeasures against DoS attacks
Marinho Barcellos, UFRGS/PUCRS, Brazil; Daniel Bauermann, Henrique Sant'anna, Matheus Lehmann and Rodrigo Mansilha, PIPCA/UNISINOS University, Brazil.


4:30PM - 6:30PM Dependability and Security Assessment 

Dynamically Quantifying and Improving the Reliability of Distributed Storage Systems
Rekha Bachwani, Rutgers University, USA; Leszek Gryz, NEC Labs America; Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University, USA; Cezary Dubnicki, NEC Labs America.

An absolute-relative risk assessment methodology approach to current safety critical systems and its application to ADS-B based Air Traffic Control
Lucio Flávio Vismari and João Batista Camargo Jr., University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies
JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, North Carolina State University,USA; Fei Chen and Alex X. Liu, Michigan State University, USA.

An Empirical Study of Denial of Service Mitigation Techniques
Gal Badishi, Technion, Israel; Amir Herzberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Idit Keidar, Oleg Romanov and Avital Yachin, Technion, Israel.



Tuesday, October 7, 2008

8:30AM - 10:30AM Distributed Storage and Services

An Autonomic Approach for Replication of Internet-based Services
Damián Serrano, Marta Patiño-Martínez, Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain and Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada.

Gumshoe: Diagnosing Performance Problems in Replicated File-Systems
Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi and Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA;

Probabilistic Failure Detection for Efficient Distributed Storage Maintenance
Jing Tian, Zhi Yang, Peking University, China; Wei Chen, Microsoft Research Asia, China; Ben Zhao, UC Santa Barbara, USA; Yafei Dai, Peking University, China.

An Incremental File System Consistency Checker for Block-Level CDP Systems (Experience Report)
Shibiao Lin, Google Inc.; Maohua Lu and Tzi-cker Chiueh, Stony Brook University, USA.

11:00AM - 1:00PM Wireless and Networking Systems 

Scalable Topology Discovery and Link State Detection Using Routing Events
Mudhakar Srivatsa, Bong-Jun Ko, Alina Beygelzimer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Venkateshwara Madduri, IBM India Research Lab.

Fault-tolerant Coverage Planning in Wireless Networks
Svilen Ivanov and Edgar Nett, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany.

POSH: Proactive co-Operative Self-Healing in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks
Roberto Di Pietro, Università di Roma 3, Italy; Di Ma, Claudio Soriente and Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine, USA.

Towards Reliable Reputations for Dynamic Networked Systems
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almeroth, UCSB, USA and S. Rao Jammalamadaka, UC Santa Barbara, USA.

1:00PM - 2:00PM Lunch Break

2:00PM - 4:00PM Distributed Algorithms 

Self-stabilization in tree-structured P2P Service Discovery Systems
Eddy Caron, University of Lyon, France; Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA; Franck Petit, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
Cedric Tedeschi, University of Lyon, France.

Adaptive Internal Clock Synchronization
Zbigniew Jerzak, Robert Fach and Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Germany.

Extending Paxos/LastVoting with an Adequate Communication Layer for Wireless Ad hoc Networks
Fatemeh Borran, EPFL, Switzerland; Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA; André Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland.

Investigating the Existence and the Regularity of Logarithmic Harary Graphs
Roberto Baldoni, Silvia Bonomi, Leonardo Querzoni, Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.

Social Event: Night Trip to Pompeii and Dinner in Pompei




Wednesday, October 8, 2008

8:30AM - 10:30AM Analysis of Distributed Protocols and Systems

A Probabilistic Analysis of Snapshot Isolation with Partial Replication
Josep Bernabé-Gisbert, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain; Vaide Zuikeviciute, University of Lugano, Switzerland; Francesc Muñoz-Escoí, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain; Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland.

Using Tractable and Realistic Churn Models to Analyze Quiescence Behavior of Distributed Protocols
Steve Y. Ko, Imranul Hoque and Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Formalizing System Behavior for Evaluating a System Hang Detector
Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk and Ravi Iyer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Availability of Globally Distributed Nodes: An Empirical Evaluation (Experience Report)
Timo Warns, Christian Storm and Wilhelm Hasselbring, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany.


11:00AM - 11:30AM Invited Talk: "Towards Trustworthy ICT" - Dr. Angelo Marino (Project Office-ICT for  Trust  &  Security, DG Information Society, EC)

11:30AM - 12:30PM Discussion

12:30PM – 1:00PM Business meeting