Thursdays / 2 pm - 3 pm / 3102 Siebel Center
First Meeting: January 25, 2007 (2nd week of classes)
Previous Seminar Versions: [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) NSDI, Middleware, PODC, OSDI, Usenix, NSDI, 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 / 2 pm - 3 pm in 3102 Siebel Center.
Schedule: Up soon.
Immediate TODO's for Students Taking this Seminar:
Please email TWO paper suggestions to Indy by January 29, 2007 (Monday) with the subject line "CS 591IG Paper Suggestions".
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 NSDI, ICDCS, DSN, PODC, DISC, SOSP, OSDI, HotOS, HotDep, HotNets, Infocom, SIGCOMM, Middleware, etc. (but is not limited to them). Any top Distributed Computing journal is also a good source (especially ACM and IEEE Journals such as IEEE TPDS, IEEE TAAS, ACM TON, ACM TOCS, as well as Distributed Computing, JSS, 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 current CS 591SN website - see [CS591SN-Spring 2007].
In addition, please DO NOT choose papers presented in previous versions of CS 591IG [CS591IG-Fall 2006][CS591IG-Spring 2006] [CS591IG-Fall 2005] or current/previous versions of CS 591 SN 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).
After January 29, 2007, once the "Spring 2007 Paper Suggestions" (see bottom of this page) have been put up, and before Feburary 1, 2007 (Thursday) , sign up for one paper presentation (paper choice and date) by emailing Indy with subject line "CS591IG Paper Choice".
First Meeting: January 25, 2007 (2nd week of classes).
Each Meeting: ONE Paper discussion + DPRG-specific stuff.
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Date |
Presenters and Slides |
Topic |
Main Papers |
| Jan 18 | - |
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No Meeting. |
| Jan 25 | Indy Gupta |
Introduction Meeting. |
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| Feb 1 | Everyone |
Ongoing Research and Semester Plans |
Group Meeting |
| Feb 8 | Jay Patel |
Content-based Filtering and Aggregation of Blogs and RSS Feeds, Ian Rose, Rohan Murty, Peter Pietzuch, Jonathan Ledlie, Mema Roussopoulos, and Matt Welsh, http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/course/cs260r/papers/cobra-techrept06.pdf NSDI 2007. |
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| Feb 15 | Indy Gupta |
Group Meeting |
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| Feb 22 | Imranul Hoque | Pastwatch: A Distributed Version Control System Alexander Yip, Benjie Chen, and Robert Morris, MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory http://project-iris.net/irisbib/papers/pastwatch:nsdi06/paper.pdf, NSDI 2006 | |
| Mar 1 | Ramses Morales | Rethink the Sync, OSDI '06 http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi06/tech/nightingale.html | |
| Mar 8 | Sonia Jahid |
WhoPay: A Scalable and Anonymous Payment System for Peer-to-Peer Environments Kai Wei, Yih-Farn Chen, Alan Smith, Binh Vo, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10967/34569/01648800.pdf?isnumber=34569&arnumber=1648800 |
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| Mar 15 | - |
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| Mar 29 | Steve Ko |
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A Shared Control Plane for Overlay Multicast http://www.cs.rice.edu/~animesh/papers/saar-tr.pdf |
| Mar 22 | NO MEETING - Spring Break.
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| Apr 26 |
Wrap-up and Evaluation Forms |
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Rethink the Sync, OSDI '06 http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi06/tech/nightingale.html
Do incentives build robustness in BitTorrent? NSDI 2007 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/piatek/papers/BitTyrant.pdf
Efficient Replica Maintenance for Distributed Storage Systems Byung-Gon Chun, University of California, Berkeley; Frank Dabek, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Andreas Haeberlen, Rice University/MPI-SWS; Emil Sit, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Hakim Weatherspoon, University of California, Berkeley; M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley; Robert Morris, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/pdf/carbonite06.pdf
Reputation-Based Scheduling on Unreliable Distributed Infrastructures Jason Sonnek, Mukesh Nathan, Abhishek Chandra, Jon Weissman http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10967/34569/01648817.pdf?isnumber=34569&arnumber=1648817
Pastwatch: A Distributed Version Control System Alexander Yip, Benjie Chen, and Robert Morris, MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory http://project-iris.net/irisbib/papers/pastwatch:nsdi06/paper.pdf
Distributed Quota Enforcement for Spam Control Michael Walfish, J.D. Zamfirescu, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI http://nms.csail.mit.edu/papers/dqe-nsdi06.pdf
WhoPay: A Scalable and Anonymous Payment System for Peer-to-Peer Environments Kai Wei, Yih-Farn Chen, Alan Smith, Binh Vo, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10967/34569/01648800.pdf?isnumber=34569&arnumber=1648800
Content-based Filtering and Aggregation of Blogs and RSS Feeds, Ian Rose, Rohan Murty, Peter Pietzuch, Jonathan Ledlie, Mema Roussopoulos, and Matt Welsh, http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/course/cs260r/papers/cobra-techrept06.pdf NSDI 2007.
A Shared Control Plane for Overlay Multicast http://www.cs.rice.edu/~animesh/papers/saar-tr.pdf
iPlane: An Information Plane for Distributed Services http://iplane.cs.washington.edu/osdi06.pdf
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