Conference Program

 

Sunday 7/23

12:00-1:00PM

Registration

Sunday 7/23

1:00-1:45PM

Keynote

Taking Concurrency Seriously:
New Directions in Multiprocessor Synchronization

Maurice Herlihy

Break

1:45-2:00PM

Retro-RUMP Session

2:00-3:15PM

Coffee break

3:15-3:45PM

Sunday 7/23

3:45-4:30PM

Keynote

Century papers at the First Quarter-Century Milestone

Danny Dolev

Break

4:30-4:45PM

Sunday 7/23

4:45-5:30PM

Keynote

Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective

Tushar Chandra

Reception and Poster Session

5:30-7:30PM

 

  • Content Availability and Signaling Overhead in DHT Systems for Mobile Environments

    Stefan Zoels, Simon Schubert, Wolfgang Kellerer, Zoran Despotovic

  • An Optimal Distributed Bridge-Finding Algorithm

    David Pritchard

  • Dynamic Medial Axis Based Motion Planning in Sensor Networks

    Lan Lin, Hyunyoung Lee

  • Implementing a Reliable Local Broadcast Primitive in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

    Vartika Bhandari, Nitin H. Vaidya

  • On Efficient Departure for Dynamic Asynchronous Systems

    Sathya Peri, Neeraj Mittal

Monday 7/24

8:00-9:00AM

Continental Breakfast

Monday 7/24

9:00-10:00AM

Keynote

Distributed Social Systems

Jon Kleinberg

Coffee break

10:00-10:30AM

Monday 7/24

10:30AM-12:00PM

Session

Graph Algorithms

Session chair: Kunar Talwar

 

On the Complexity of Distributed Graph Coloring

Fabian Kuhn, Roger Wattenhofer

 

Quorum Placement in Networks: Minimizing Network Congestion

Daniel Golovin, Anupam Gupta, Bruce Maggs, Florian Oprea, Michael Reiter

 

Distributed Verification of Minimum Spanning Trees

Amos Korman, Shay Kutten

Lunch

12:00-1:00PM

Monday 7/24

1:00-3:00PM

Session

Game Theory

Session chair: Haifeng Yu

 

When Selfish Meets Evil: Byzantine Players in a Virus Inoculation Game

Thomas Moscibroda, Stefan Schmid, Roger Wattenhofer

 

Routing Without Regret: On Convergence to Nash Equilibria of Regret-Minimizing Algorithms in Routing Games

Avrim Blum, Eyal Even-Dar, Katrina Ligett

 

Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory: Robust Mechanisms for Rational Secret Sharing and Multiparty Computation

Ittai Abraham, Danny Dolev, Rica Gonen, Joseph Halpern

 

EquiCast: Scalable Multicast with Selfish Users

Idit Keidar, Roie Melamed, Ariel Orda

Coffee break

3:00-3:30PM

Monday 7/24

3:30-5:30PM

Session

Algorithms

Session chair: Jared Saia

 

Grouped Distributed Queues: Distributed Queue, Proportional Share Multiprocessor Scheduling

Bogdan Caprita, Jason Nieh, Clifford Stein

 

Sketching Asynchronous Streams Over Sliding Windows

Srikanta Tirthapura, Bojian Xu, Costas Busch

 

Adversarial queuing on the multiple-access channel

Bogdan Chlebus, Dariusz Kowalski, Mariusz Rokicki

 

Veracity Radius - Capturing the Locality of Distributed Computrations

Yitzhak Birk, Idit Keidar, Liran Liss, Assaf Schuster, Ran Wolff

Business meeting

8:00-10:00PM

 

 

Tuesday 7/25

8:00-9:00AM

Continental Breakfast

Tuesday 7/25

9:00-10:00AM

Keynote

Life is not a State-Machine;
The Long Road from Research to Production

Werner Vogels

Coffee break

10:00-10:30AM

Tuesday 7/25

10:30AM-12:00PM

Session

Peer-to-peer

Session chair: Cyril Gavoille

 

Computing Separable Functions via Gossip

Damon Mosk-Aoyama, Devavrat Shah

 

Peer Counting and Sampling in overlay networks: random walk methods

Laurent Massoulie, Erwan Le Merrer, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Ayalvadi Ganesh

 

On the Topologies Formed by Selfish Peers

Thomas Moscibroda, Stefan Schmid, Roger Wattenhofer

Lunch
(on your own)

12:00-1:30PM

Tuesday 7/25

1:30-3:30PM

Session

Agreement Problems

Session chair: Eric Ruppert

 

Self-stabilizing Byzantine Agreement

Ariel Daliot, Danny Dolev

 

Irreducibility and Additivity of Set Agreement-oriented Failure Detector Classes

Corentin Travers, Achour Mostefaoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal

 

Optimally Efficient Multi-Valued Byzantine Agreement

Matthias Fitzi, Martin Hirt

 

Timeliness, Failure-Detectors, and Consensus Performance

Idit Keidar, Alexander Shraer

Coffee break

3:30-4:00PM

Tuesday 7/25

4:00-6:00PM

Session

Graph Algorithms

Session chair: Fabian Kuhn

 

Oracle size: a new measure of difficulty for communication tasks

Pierre Fraigniraud, David Ilcinkas, Andrzej Pelc

 

Object Location Using Path Separators

Ittai Abraham, Cyril Gavoille

 

On Optimal Stretch Name-Independent Compact Routing in Doubling Metrics

Donglin Xia, Goran Konjevod, Andréa Richa

 

Local Approximation Schemes for Topology Control

Mirela Damian, Saurav Pandit, Sriram Pemmaraju

Banquet and Award Ceremony

7:00-10:00PM

 

 

Wednesday 7/26

8:00-9:00AM

Continental Breakfast

Wednesday 7/26

9:00-10:30AM

Session

Shared Memory

Session chair: Tim Harris

 

Common2 extended to stacks and unbounded concurrency

Yehuda Afek, Eli Gafni, Adam Morrison

 

Single-Scanner Multi-Writer Snapshot Implementations are Fast!

Panagiota Fatourou, Nikolaos Kallimanis

 

An O(1) RMRs Leader Election Algorithm

Wojciech Golab, Danny Hendler, Philipp Woelfel

Coffee break

10:30-11:00AM

Wednesday 7/26

11:00AM-12:30PM

Session

Fault Tolerance

Session chair: Michael Merritt

 

How fast can a very robust read be?

Rachid Guerraoui, Marko Vukolic

 

Reliable Broadcast in Radio Networks: The Bounded Collision Case

Chiu-Yuen Koo, Vartika Bhandari, Jonathan Katz, Nitin H. Vaidya

 

(Im)Possibility and Complexity of Probabilistic Reliable Communication in Directed Networks

Kannan Srinathan, C. Pandu Rangan

Lunch

12:30-1:30PM

Wednesday 7/26

1:30-3:00PM

Session

Algorithms and Lower Bounds

Session chair: Boaz Patt-Shamir

 

An Ω(n log n) Lower Bound on the Cost of Mutual Exclusion

Rui Fan, Nancy Lynch

 

A Lower Bound for Scalable Byzantine Agreement

Dan Holtby, Bruce Kapron, Valerie King

 

Stably Computable Predicates are Semilinear

Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, David Eisenstat

Coffee break

3:00-3:30PM

Wednesday 7/26

3:30-4:30PM

Session

Shared Memory Synchronization

Session chair: Jennifer Welch

 

Synchronizing without Locks is Inherently Expensive

Hagit Attiya, Rachid Guerraoui, Danny Hendler, Petr Kouznetsov

 

Transactional Contention Management as a Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling Problem

Hagit Attiya, Leah Epstein, Hadas Shachnai, Tami Tamir