Presentation Schedule // CS 525: Advanced Distributed Systems // Spring 2013


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Date

Presenters,

Slides,

and 

 Reviews  

Topic

Main Papers

More Papers (optional)

Must-see Papers if your Project overlaps with the area.

1/15 Indy

[slides-ppt]

Introduction See topic "Epidemics" below
1/17 Indy

[slides-ppt]

 

Before, There Were Clouds

Recommend that you join Googlegroups on Cloud Computing

 
1/22 Indy

[slides-ppt]

Cloud Computing Continued
1/24  

Indy

[slides-ppt]

 

P2P Systems

1/24

Last day to sign up for a presentation slot (2/7/13 through 4/4/13 only). Two presenters per slot only.

Instructions for Presentations and Reviews

1/29 Indy

[slides-ppt]

P2P Systems (contd.)

 

1/31 Indy

[slides-ppt]

Basic Distributed Algorithms Fundamentals and Sensor Networks

 

 

 

2/5 Indy

[slides-ppt]

Key-value Stores and NoSQL

Others: MongoDB

 

2/7 Babak Behzad && Faraz Faghri

[slides-pdf]

Programming in the Cloud Student Presentations and Reviews Start - See Instructions

 

2/12 Furquan Shaikh && Fangzhou Yao

[Paxos slides-Indy]

[paper slides-pdf]

Everyone uses Paxos Please don't review the first paper

(Review these) - Student Presenters will present these

 

 
2/14 Karan Parikh && Onur Karaman

[slides-pdf]

Store it in the Cloud

  

2/17

Project Survey Report due, 11.59 pm [12pt font, single-sided, 3 + 1 pages max] (In groups of 2-3)

Instructions for Survey and its Submission

2/19 Junjie Hu && Xueman Mou

[slides-pdf]

Other looks at MapReduce

 

 

2/21 Chien-Nan Chen && Abhishek Sreenath

[slides-pdf]

A Touch of Sensor Nets
2/26 Cuong Pham && Biplab Deka

[slides-pdf]

The CAP never fits - Consistency in the Cloud  

 

 

2/28 Hilfi Alkaff && Lionel Li

[slides-pdf]

Management Science
3/5 Viencent Bindschadler && Ala Alkhaldi

[slides-pdf]

There's an App for That
3/7 Haiming Jin && Zhenhuan Gao

[slides-pdf]

P2P App for That
3/12 Hongyang Li && Mo Dong

[slides-pdf]

Process it In-network
3/14 Mainak Ghosh && Mayur Sadavarte

[slides-pdf]

Spreading the Rumor

3/19  

 

 

Spring Vacation - No Class.

 

 

 

3/21  

 

 

Spring Vacation - No Class.

 

 

 

3/26 Indy

[slides-ppt]

How does it Behave?

 

3/28 Indy

[slides-ppt]

Low Fees Required - Probabilistic Membership

 

 

3/31

Project Midterm Report due, 11.59 pm [12pt font, single-sided, 8 + 1 pages max] (In groups of 2-3)

Instructions for Midterm and its Submission

4/2  Ting Xie

[slides-pdf]

How Much is That?  

 

4/4 No class (Midterm reviews).
4/7

Midterm Reviews due, 11.59 PM

Midterm Review Form

4/9 Indy

[slides-ppt]

Datacenter Disasters - Case Studies  
  •  (No main readings)

(If you reviewed any of the papers below, then you can submit them. We will not cover these papers during this session. We might be able to discuss these papers later in the semester.)

 

 
4/11 Anirudh Ravula && Tanvir Al Amin

[slides-pdf]

Fast on SLOs

 

4/16 Faraz Faghri && Ala Alkhadi

[slides-pdf]

So Much Data!  

 

4/18  Mainak Ghosh && Hilfi Alkaff

[slides-pdf]

In-memory clusters    
4/23 Vinay Nagar

[slides-pdf]

 

Imranul Hoque

[slides-ppt]

Potpourri  

 

 

 

4/25 Indy

[slides-ppt]

 

How do Networks Look?

 

 

4/30 Indy

[slides-ppt]

Completing the Circle

(No reviews required for the following papers. Paper copies for offline papers were handed out during previous lecture.)

  • R. Hoffmann, "Why buy that theory?", 2003
  • R. P. Feynman, "Metaplast Corp."

END OF CLASSES

5/5 (Sunday)

Project Final Report due, 11.59 pm [12pt font, single-sided, 12 + 1 pages max] (In groups of 2-3)

(Deadline is Hard and final, no extensions!)

Instructions for Final Report and its Submission

 
 

The following sessions are a rich source of ideas and directions for your projects - mine them! We could not include them in the course schedule due to the limited time.

Leftover  

(You can't sign up yet for this slot)

 

Securitae!
Leftover   In Byzantium
Leftover   Geo-Distribution
Leftover  

 

Old Wine: Stale or Vintage?

 

Leftover   Publish-Subscribe/CDNs
Leftover  

 

Distributed Monitoring and  Management

 

Leftover Green Clouds
Leftover   Distributed Debugging

 

Leftover Flash!  
Leftover   The Middle or the End?

(review any one of the following 3 papers)

 

Leftover   Availability-Aware Systems

(read the papers, but no reviews required for this session)

 
Leftover   Design Methodologies, Handling Stress

(No class today, but if you submitted a review on time, you can skip one of the remaining review sessions)

Leftover Sources of unreliability in networks

 

Leftover  A Step Back 

 

Leftover   Distributed Management (2)  
Leftover Handling Stress
Leftover   Selfish algorithms   
Leftover Security
Leftover   Economic Theory
Leftover   The future of sensor nets?
Leftover   P2P - Etc.  
Leftover   The End-to-End Approach
Leftover Automatic Computing and Inference
Leftover   Modular Systems  
Leftover Practical theory perspectives
Leftover    Topology and Naming
Leftover   Classical Algorithms  
Leftover   Caching

 

Note: The Spring 2013 schedule has roughly 50% new papers compared to the last version of CS525 (SP11).

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