DATE: Thursday , February 20, 2003
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Hamerschlag Hall D-210
SPEAKER:
Anish
Arora
Professor, Ohio State University
TITLE:
Self-Stabilization in Network Services
ABSTRACT:
This talk begins with a mini-tutorial on system stabilization, whose main
idea is that the system when placed in an arbitrary state eventually converges
to desired states. This idea, which has been deeply studied in distributed
computing over the past three decades, is finding renewed application
in sensor networks and internet services. We will overview some such applications
that we have encountered in our work with DARPA Network Embedded Systems
platforms and with Microsoft Research. And, given the challenges of scale
that these applications introduce, we will discuss techniques for scaling
self-stabilization in the dimensions of resource, time, network size,
and code size.
BIO:
Anish Arora is Professor of Computer Science at The Ohio State University.
His research interests focus on the problem of fault-tolerance and security
in modern distributed and networked systems. Arora has a B.Tech. degree
from IIT, Delhi and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas
at Austin, all in Computer Science. He was program chair of the 1999 Workshop
on Self-Stabilization (now called the Symposium on Self-Stabilization)
and co-chair of the Seminar on Self-Stabilization at Dagstuhl, Germany
in 1998 and in 2000, at Luminy, France in 2002, and he is program chair
for an upcoming Seminar on Self-Stabilization in Banff, Canada and an
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/