Advance Program
International Workshop on
Applied Reliable Group Communication
In conjunction with Int'l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems 2001
sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
April 16 - 19, 2001
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Reliable Group Communication is an important paradigm to build
distributed applications that require multi-peer interaction with
different levels of consistency. For more than a decade researchers
have been improving group protocols to provide membership, multicast
and ordering services. The workshop intends to be a forum to discuss
experiences with the use of these protocols to support different types
of applications, including (but not limited to):
- Cooperative Applications
- Dependable Systems
- Distributed Object Systems
- Distributed Databases
- Distributed Simulation
- Intrusion Tolerance
- Information Dissemination Systems
- Multi-user Virtual Worlds
- Parallel Applications
- Real-Time Systems
- Shared-Memory Systems
The workshop is particularly interested in papers that identify
specific positive and negative aspects of existing protocols, from the
point of view of their semantics, interfaces, implementations and
performance.
Program:
8:30 - 10:00 Session 1. Services. Chair: Kaysuya
Tanaka
- C. Delporte-Gallet and H. Fauconnier An Example of Real-Time Group
Communication System.
- G. Singh and S. Badarpura. Application Ordering in Group
Communication.
- M. Correia, P. Veríssimo and N. Neves The Architecture of a Secure
Group Communication System based on Intrusion Tolerance.
10:30 - 12:30 Session 2. Algorithms. Chair: Matti
Hiltunen
- K. Jenkins, K. Hopkinson and K. Birman. Reliable Group
Communication with Subgroups.
- Z. Xiao and K. Birman. Providing Efficient, Robust Error Recovery
Through Randomization.
- X. Liu, R. van Renesse, M. Bickford, C. Kreitz and R. Constable.
Protocol Switching: Exploiting Meta-Properties.
- K. Jenkins and A. Demers. Logarithmic Harary Graphs
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 Session 3. Applications. Chair:
Shivakant Mishra
- E. Duarte and A. Santos. Network Fault-Management Based on SNMP
Agent Groups.
- A. Fekete and I. Keidar. A General Framework for Highly Available
Services Based on Group Communication.
- V. Hilt, M. Mauve and W. Effelsberg. A Light-Weight Repair
Protocol for the Loss-Free Recording of MBone Sessions.
- A. Montresor, R. Davoli and O. Babaoglu. Jgroup: Enhancing Jini with
Group Communication.
16:00 - 18:00 Panel: Experience with reliable group
communication. Chair: Yair Amir
- Christof Fetzer, AT&T research.
- Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna.
- Priya Narasimhan, Eternal Systems.
- Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University.
- Jonathan Stanton, Johns Hopkins University.
Workshop Chairs:
- Michel Raynal, IRISA, France
- Email: Michel.Raynal@irisa.fr
- Luis Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Email: ler@di.fc.ul.pt
- URL: http://www.fc.ul.pt/~ler/
Program Committee
Members:
- Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel
- Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
- Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs, USA
- Joerg Kaiser, Univ. Ulm, Germany
- Mark Little, Bluestone Software, UK
- Keith Marzullo, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
- Shivakant Mishra, Univ. of Colorado, USA
- Katsuya Tanaka, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
- Paulo Verissimo, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal
- Werner Vogels, Univ. Cornell, USA
Important Dates:
- Paper submission due: Nov. 1, 2000
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- Notification: Dec. 30, 2000
- Camera ready: Jan. 20, 2001
- Conference: April 16-19, 2001
Web Pages:
- Conference URL: http://cactus.eas.asu.edu/ICDCS2001/
- Workshop URL: http://wargc2001.di.fc.ul.pt/
- Call for papers: cfp.html
- CFP in postscript: wargc2001.ps