Faculty Awards

Recovery Oriented Computing
Armando Fox, Stanford University

zFS
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Guiron University
During the previous two years a prototype of a self-stabilizing distributed file system was designed and implemented. The research project was in collaboration with Ealan A. Henis, Julian Satran, and Alan Azagury from IBM Haifa Research Lab and resulted in several publications including a paper in the International Workshop on Self-Repairing and Self-Configurable Distributed Systems, Osaka, Japan 2002. The master (now PhD) student Ronen Kat together with a number of undergraduate students and a software engineer, Albina Budker, have developed a prototype under the supervision of Professor Shlomi Dolev. The prototype of the system will be available to interested researchers.

Practical Selfish Routing
Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University

In order to maximize the reliability and performance between nodes of a distributed application, a site must carefully consider the choice of ISPs and the selection of routes among those advertised by the chosen ISPs. Our work involves i) large-scale network measurements to characterize the expected performance of typical Internet paths, and ii) measurement and analysis of the performance and reliability benefits of connecting to multiple ISPs at an enterprise or data center.