ASAP – As Scalable As Possible

Calculabilité et conditions de progression des objets partagés en présence de défaillances Directeur de Thèse : – Michel Raynal, professeur Université de Rennes 1 Rapporteurs: Dominique Mery, Professeur Loria Franck Petit, Professeur Lip6 Examinateurs : Carole Deplorte, Professeur Paris Diderot Petr Kuznetsov, Chercheur TU Berlin Rachid Guerraoui, Professeur EPFL Lausanne Panagiota Fatourou, Assistant Professeur, University […]

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Title: Applications and Network in Data Centers: Friends or Foes? Abstract: Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that applications treat the network as a black box. An application injects a packet with a destination address and the network delivers the packet. This principle has served us well, and has enabled […]

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Title: The Battle for Privacy Abstract: This talk is about attacking and defending IP privacy; or, in other words, violating your boss’ privacy and protecting Wikileaks’ sources. First, I discuss how to reverse engineer Skype to find out the IP address of a targeted person.  This could be exploited for many malicious purposes such as […]

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Title: ——- Resource provisioning for complex Web applications Abstract: ————- Dynamic resource provisioning aims at maintaining the end-to-end response time of a web application within a pre-defined range (Service Level Objective, SLO). Provisioning resources for applications composed of multiple services remains a challenge. When the SLO is violated, one must decide /which/ service(s) should be […]

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Tolérer les fautes transitoires, permanentes et intermittentes Lorsque la taille d’un système réparti devient importante ou lorsque ce système est déployé dans un environnement non contrôlé, la probabilité que certains éléments du système subissent des fautes (panne, corruption de mémoire, piratage, …) devient non négligeable. Ces fautes peuvent être classifiées en fonction de leur durée, […]

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