PROGRAM
of
Annual IEEE Workshop on Fault Tolerant Parallel and
Distributed Systems
May 5, 2000
West Regina Hotel
Cancun , Mexico
 

Held in conjunction with:
International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium  2000
IPDPS2000
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
In cooperation  with: TCCA, TCDP&ACM  SIGARCH





8:20am
Opening Session

Invited Talks 8:30 - 9:50pm
Chairman D. Avresky,  Network Computing Lab, Boston University, USA

8:30am - 9:10am
"Diversity for dependability"
Jean-Claude Laprie, LAAS, CNRS, France

9:10- 9:50am
"Certification of system architecture  dependability"
H. Levendel, Motorola, USA

Break 9:50 - 10:00am

Session 1
Chairman J. Laprie, LAAS, CNRS, France

10:00-10:30am
"Computing in the RAIN: A Reliable Array of Independent Nodes"
 V. Bohossian, C. Fan, P. LeMahieu, M. Riedel, L. Xu, and J. Bruck,
(USA)

10:30-11:00am
"Fault-Tolerant Wide-Area Parallel Computing"
 J. Weissman, (USA)

11:00-11:30am
"FANTOMAS: Fault Tolerance for Mobile Agents in Clusters"
H. Pals, S. Petri, and C. Grewe, (Germany).

11:30 - 12:00pm
"Consensus Based on Strong Failure Detectors: Time and Message-Efficient Protocols"
 F. Greve, M. Hurfin, R. Macedo, and M. Raynal, (France).

Lunch Break 12:00 - 1:30pm

Session 2
Chairman H. Levendel, Motorola, USA

1:30-2:00pm
"Metrics, Methodologies, and Tools for Analyzing Network Fault Recovery in Real-Time Distributed Systems"
 P. Irey, B. Chappell, R. Hott, D. Marlow, K. O'Donoghue, and T. Plunkett, (USA).

2:00 - 2:30pm
"Transient Analysis of Dependability/Performability Models by Regenerative Randomization with Laplace Transform Inversion"
J. Carrasco,  (Spain).

2:30-3:00pm
"Implementation of Finite Lattices in VLSI for Fault-State Encoding  in High-Speed Networks "
A. D. Doering  and G. Lustig, (Germany).

Session 3
Chairman E. Maehle, Germany

3:00-3:25pm
"Building a Reliable Message Delivery System Using the COBRA Event Service"
 S. Ramani, B. Dasarathy, and K . Trivedi (USA)

3:25-3:50pm
"Network Survivability Simulation of a Commercially Deployed Dynamic Routing System Protocol"
 A. Chowdhury, O. Frieder, P. Luse, and P. Wan (USA)

3:50-4:15pm
"Fault-Tolerant Distributed Shared Memory on a Broadcast-Based Interconnection Network"
 D. Hecht and C. Katsinis (USA)

4:15 -4:40pm
"An Efficient Backup-Overloading for Fault-Tolerant Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks"
 R. Al-Omari, G. Manimaran, and A. Somani (USA)

4:40 - 5:05pm
"Mobile Agents to Automate Fault Management in Wireless and Mobile Networks"
 N. Pissinou, Bhagayavati, and K. Makki (USA)
 

Closing Session 5:10-5:30pm