Phenix Workshop

Self-healing and Fault Tolerant Systems

organized in the framework of the Phenix associated team
http://www.irisa.fr/paris/Phenix/

Paris project team website: http://www.irisa.fr/paris/
Discolab project team website: http://discolab.rutgers.edu/

December 1-2, 2005
IRISA Laboratory, Rennes, room Valorisation

The workshop will be preceded on November 30, 2005 Wednesday 14:30 room Guernesey by Ph.D. Thesis defense of Louis Rilling about Single System Image for Grids of Volatile Nodes: Design and Implementation of Reliable Services to Execute Distributed Applications Sharing Data.

December 1, 2005 Thursday
  9:30 -
10:00

Presentation of DiscoLab [slides]

Liviu Iftode, Associate Professor, Rutgers University

Coffee break
10:30 -
11:15

Building Reliable Systems Using Backdoors [abstract] [slides]

Stephen Smaldone, Ph.D candidate, Rutgers University

11:15 -
12:00

Towards Automated Defense from Rootkit Attacks [abstract] [slides]

Arati Baliga, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University

Lunch
14:00 -
14:45

Distributed Applications Recovery using Speculations [abstract] [slides]

Cristian Tapus, Ph.D. candidate, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

14:45 -
15:30

Information Flow Control in Mobile Systems [abstract] [slides]

Nishkam Ravi, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University

Coffee break
16:00 -
16:45

Designing an Inter-vehicular network stack for Car-to-Car communication [abstract] [slides]

Pravin Shankar, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University



December 2, 2005 Friday
Welcome Coffee
10:15 -
10:45

Presentation of Paris, Kerrighed and Vigne [slides]

Christine Morin, Senior Researcher, IRISA/INRIA

11:15 -
12:00

The new architecture of Kerrighed for High Availability [slides]

Pascal Gallard, Engineer, IRISA

Lunch
14:00 -
14:45

Transparent Parallel Applications Checkpointing in Kerrighed [abstract] [slides]

Matthieu Fertré, Ph.D. candidate, IRISA/Université de Rennes 1

14:45 -
15:30

Resource Discovery and Allocation in Federated Clusters [slides]

Emmanuel Jeanvoine, Ph.D. candidate, IRISA/ EDF R&D

Coffee break
15:45 -
16:30

Managing fault-tolerance and data consistency in the JuxMem grid data-sharing service [abstract] [slides]

Sébastien Monnet, Ph.D. candidate, IRISA

The research presented at this workshop by Rutgers' DiscoLab project team has been sponsored by NSF through the grants CCR-0133366, ANI-0121416 and ANI-0520123.