Program for PODC 2002


The following is the program for PODC 2002.

Note that this program differs from that of other recent PODCs in that the Sunday program contains, in addition to a tutorial and a reception, half a day of technical sessions.  The conference ends at midday on Wednesday.  You should plan your travel accordingly.

July 21, 2002, Sunday

10:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:45 Lunch (on your own)
14:00 - 14:05
Opening Remarks
Keith Marzullo, Program Chair
14:05 - 15:05
Invited Presentation
Sensor Networks Research: In Search of Principles
Deborah Estrin, UCLA
15:05 - 15:25 Break
15:25 - 17:05 Session 1 (Chair: Prasad Jayanti)

Nonatomic Mutual Exclusion with Local Spinning
James H. Anderson and Yong-Jik Kim
Winner of Best Student-Paper Award

Space-Optimal Multi-Writer Snapshot Objects Are Slow
Panagiota Fatourou, Faith Fich, and Eric Ruppert

Safe Memory Reclamation for Dynamic Lock-Free Objects Using Atomic Reads and Writes
Maged M. Michael

Non-Blocking Timeout in Scalable Queue-Based Spin Locks
Michael L. Scott

17:30 - 19:30 Reception

July 22, 2002, Monday

9:00 - 10:00 Invited Presentation
Peer-to-peer computing: a new direction in distributed computing
Frans Kaashoek, M.I.T.
10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 12:00 Session 2 (Chair: Michael Mitzenmacher)

Establishing Wireless Conference Calls Under Delay Constraints
Amotz Bar-Noy, Grzegorz Malewicz 

Efficient algorithms for leader election in radio networks
Tomasz Jurdzinski, Miroslaw Kutylowski, Jan Zatopianski 

GS3: Scalable Self-configuration and Self-healing in Wireless Networks
Hongwei Zhang and Anish Arora

Lexicographically Optimal Smoothing for Broadband Traffic Multiplexing (PDF, postscript)
Stergios Anastasiadis, Peter Varman, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Ke Yi

12:00 - 13:45 Lunch (hosted by PODC)
13:45 - 15:50 Session 3 (Chair: Idit Keidar)

Optimal Plans for Aggregation
Andrei Broder and Michael Mitzenmacher 

The Inherent Price of Indulgence
Partha Dutta and Rachid Guerraoui

Minimal Replication Cost for Availability
Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat

Building secure file systems out of Byzantine storage
David Mazières and Dennis Shasha

Detectable Byzantine Agreement Secure Against Faulty Majorities
Matthias Fitzi, Daniel Gottesman, Martin Hirt, Thomas Holenstein, and Adam Smith

15:50 - 16:10 Break
16:10 - 17:20 Session 4 (Chair: Eli Gafni)

Building Responsive TMR-Based Servers in Presence of Timing Constraints
Paul Ezhilchelvan, Jean-Michel Hélary, Michel Raynal

Exploiting Precision vs. Efficiency Tradeoffs in Symmetric Replication Environments
Ugur Cetintemel, Peter Keleher, and Yanif Ahmad

Towards a Formal Model for View Maintenance in Data Warehouses
Achour Mostéfaoui, Michel Raynal, Matthieu Roy, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi

A highly concurrent group mutual l-exclusion algorithm
K. Vidyasankar 

Dynamic-Sized Lock-Free Data Structures
Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, Paul Martin, Mark Moir 

Optimally Work-Competitive Scheduling for Cooperative Computing with Merging Groups
Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander Russell and Alex A. Shvartsman 

Assignment-based Partitioning in a Condition Monitoring System
Yongqiang Huang and Hector Garcia-Molina

17:20 - 20:00 Dinner (on your own)
20:00 - 22:30 Business Meeting, PODC Influential Paper Award Presentation, and Rump Session

July 23, 2002, Tuesday

8:30 - 10:10 Session 5 (Chair: Ajay Kshemkalyani)

Nearly Optimal FIFO Buffer Management for DiffServ
Zvi Lotker and Boaz Patt-Shamir 

Active Disk Paxos with infinitely many processes
Gregory Chockler and Dahlia Malkhi

Searching for a Black Hole in Arbitrary Networks: Optimal Mobile Agent Protocols
Stefan Dobrev, Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro

General Perfectly Periodic Scheduling
Zvika Brakerski, Aviv Nisgav, and Boaz Patt-Shamir

10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:10 Session 6 (Chair: Michael Greenwald)

A BGP-based Mechanism for Lowest-Cost Routing (postscript, PDF)
Joan Feigenbaum, Christos Papadimitriou, Rahul Sami, Scott Shenker

Viceroy: A Scalable and Dynamic Emulation of the Butterfly
Dahlia Malkhi, Moni Naor and David Ratajczak 

On Perfectly Secure Communication over Arbitrary Networks
M V N Ashwin Kumar, Pranava Raja Goundan, K Srinathan, C Pandu Rangan 

Sequential Composition of Protocols without Simultaneous Termination
Yehuda Lindell, Anna Lysyanskaya, Tal Rabin

12:10 - 13:50 Lunch (hosted by PODC)
13:50 - 15:30 Session 7  (Chair: Aleta Ricciardi)

Squirrel: A decentralized peer-to-peer web cache (project web page)
Sitaram Iyer, Antony Rowstron, and Peter Druschel

Fault-tolerant Routing in Peer-to-peer Systems
James Aspnes, Zoe Diamadi, Gauri Shah 

Analysis of the Evolution of Peer-to-Peer Systems
David Liben-Nowell, Hari Balakrishnan and David Karger

Evaluating the Running Time of a Communication Round over the Internet
Omar Bakr and Idit Keidar

15:30 - 15:50 Break
15:50 - 17:00 Session 8 (Chair: Yi-Min Wang)

Asynchronous Interactive Consistency and its Relation with Error-Correcting Codes
Achour Mostefaoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal 

Selective Anti-Entropy
Weibin Zhao and Henning Schulzrinne

Compact Routing for Average-Case Networks (longer draft)
Kazuo Iwama and Masaki Okita 

How to wait when you are not going to block
Michael Greenwald

Understanding Perfect Failure Detectors
Mikel Larrea 

Early Stopping in Global Data Computation
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Jean-Michel Hélary, Michel Raynal

Random Walk for Self-Stabilizing Group Communication in Ad-Hoc Networks (link to page with full paper)
Shlomi Dolev, Elad Schiller, and Jennifer Welch

18:30 - 21:00 Banquet

July 24, 2002, Wednesday

9:00 - 10:00 Invited Presentation
Global Content Delivery
Bruce Maggs, Akamai and Carnegie-Mellon University
10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 12:00 Session 9 (Chair: Sergio Rajsbaum)

Two-Handed Emulation: How to build non-blocking implementations of complex data-structures using DCAS
Michael B. Greenwald

f-Arrays: Implementation and Applications
Prasad Jayanti 

Non-Blocking Steal-half Work Queues
Danny Hendler and Nir Shavit 

Dynamic and Self-Stabilizing Distributed Matching
Subhendu Chattopadhyay, Lisa Higham, Karen Seyffarth

12:00 Concluding Remarks
Keith Marzullo, Program Chair
12:10 Conference adjourns

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Last modified: August 2, 2002