CS 591 IG Fall 2007

[Advanced Seminar in Distributed Computing]

Thursdays / 4 pm - 5 pm  / 3102 Siebel Center (Time and Place Confirmed)

First Meeting: August 30, 2007 (2nd week of classes)

Link to CS 591IG Mailing List

Previous Seminar Versions: [CS591IG-Spring 2007] [CS591IG-Fall 2006] [CS591IG-Spring 2006] [CS591IG-Fall 2005]

Course Organizer: Indranil Gupta

Course Attendees: Students of DPRG Research Group (and prospective members)

This course is devoted to a critical analysis of the latest papers and hot topics in distributed systems. Conferences of interest are include (but are not limited to) ICDCS, DSN, Middleware, NSDI,  PODC, DISC, SRDS, OSDI, Usenix, Sensys, IPTPS, HotDep, HotOS, HotNets, SIGCOMM, Infocom. and prominent journals. Some course sessions will be devoted to students giving upcoming conference talks. The seminar content is mutually exclusive from that of CS 591 SN.

To take this seminar course, you should either (1) be formally or informally a part of the DPRG or (2) have permission from Indy (meet him: usually given if you are looking to work with him in the future).

Meets: Thursdays / 4 pm - 5 pm in 3102 Siebel Center.

Schedule: Up soon.

Immediate TODO's for Students Taking this Seminar:

1. Before September 3, 2007 (Monday), please email TWO paper suggestions to Indy, with the subject line "CS 591IG Paper Suggestions".

   Please provide the full author list, full paper title, conference name, month and year, and a link to the pdf for any papers you suggest (including your own publications).

   • To select your TWO papers, use latest publications from either conferences or journals (papers no earlier than 2005). For conferences, use the latest versions of conferences that are relevant to Distributed Systems research: this includes top conferences such as ICDCS, DSN, Middleware, NSDI,  PODC, DISC, SRDS, OSDI, Usenix, Sensys, IPTPS, HotDep, HotOS, HotNets, SIGCOMM, Infocom, etc. (but is not limited to them). Any top Distributed Computing journal is also a good source (especially ACM and IEEE Journals such as Distributed Computing, IEEE TPDS, JSS, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TAAS, ACM TON, ACM TOCS, Distributed Computing, JPDC, etc.). If you still do not know which conferences to start looking at, a good place to start is the list of links to conferences on the CS 591SN websites - see [CS591SN-Fall 2007] [CS591SN- Fall 2006].

     In addition, please DO NOT choose papers presented in previous versions of CS 591IG [CS591IG-Spring 2007] [CS591IG-Fall 2006][CS591IG-Spring 2006] [CS591IG-Fall 2005] or current/previous versions of CS 591 SN [CS591SN-Fall 2007] [CS591SN-Spring 2007] [CS591SN-Fall 2006] [CS591SN-Fall 2006] [CS591SN-Spring 2006]  [CS591SN-Fall 2005]. You may be able to select papers from the "Paper Suggestions" list that appears at the bottom of previous CS591IG pages (but that were not selected for presentation in any of the above seminars).

     Select only papers that are (1) extremely well-written, (2) that tackle an important problem, (3) that propose a novel solution, as well as (4) that have a thorough analysis or evaluation. If you are unable to find such papers, choose papers that have at least THREE of the above characteristics (1)-(4).

   • In addition, if you have any papers that you will be presenting in upcoming conferences, please include them also (in addition to the above two paper suggestions).

    

2. After September 3, 2007, once the "Fall 2007 Paper Suggestions" (see bottom of this page) have been put up, and before September 6, 2007 (Thursday) , sign up for one paper presentation (paper choice and date) by emailing Indy with subject line "CS591IG Paper Choice".

First Meeting: August 30, 2007 (2nd week of classes).

Each Meeting: ONE Paper discussion + DPRG-specific stuff.

Spring 2007 Schedule:

PeerReview: Practical Accountability for Distributed Systems Andreas Haeberlen (MPI-SWS), Petr Kouznetsov (MPI-SWS), and Peter Druschel (MPI-SWS), SOSP 07 www.mpi-sws.mpg.de/~ahae/papers/peerreview-sosp07.pdf

Octant: A Comprehensive Framework for the Geolocalization of Internet Hosts Bernard Wong, Ivan Stoyanov, and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University, NSDI 07 www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/octant-nsdi.pdf

Márk Jelasity, Spyros Voulgaris, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, and Maarten van Steen. Gossip-based peer sampling. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 25(3):8, August 2007. URL: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~jelasity/cikkek/tocs05.pdf

Jeannie Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. Loose Synchronization for Large-Scale Networked Systems. In Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX), June 2006. URL: http://www.cs.williams.edu/~jeannie/papers/plush-usenix06.pdf

Morales, Ramsés, Brian Cho, Indranil Gupta. "AVMEM - Availability-Aware Overlays for Management Operations," Proc. ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, 2007. URL: http://kepler.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/avmem/avmem.pdf

SafeStore: A Durable and Practical Storage System http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kotla/pub/SafeStore.pdf Ramakrishna Kotla, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin

Hyperspaces for Object Clustering and Approximate Matching in Peer-to-Peer Overlays. Bernard Wong, Ymir Vigfusson, and Emin Gün Sirer. Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, May 2007 pdf at: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/papers/hyperspaces.pdf

Shruti: A Self-Tuning Hierarchical Aggregation System. Praveen Yalagandula and Mike Dahlin. First International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), July 2007 pdf at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Praveen_Yalagandula/saso07.pdf

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