PROGRAM
of
Annual IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and
Distributed Systems
April 16, 1999
Caribe Hilton,
San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA

Held in conjunction with:
13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and
10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing


 




8:45-9:00am
Opening Session

Invited Talks
Chairman D. Avresky, Boston University, USA

9:00 - 9:30am
"Dependable Software for Critical Systems"
Jean-Claude Laprie, LAAS, CNRS, France

9:30- 10:00am
"Software Dependability in Wireless Systems"
H. Levendel, Motorola, USA

10:00-10:30am
"Fault-Tolerant Routing in the Internet Without Flooding"
Paolo Narvaez, Kai-Yeung Siu, and Hong-Yi Tzeng, MIT, D'Arbelloff Lab, USA

Break 10:30 - 11:00am

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

11:00-11:30am
"An Analysis of Error Behavior in a Large Storage System"
Nisha Talagala, David Patterson, University of California at Berkeley, USA

11:30-12:00am
"On the Possibility of Group Membership Protocols"
Massimo Franceschetti, Jehoshua Bruck, California Institute of Technology, USA
 

Lunch Break 12:00 - 1:00pm

Session 2
Chairman E. Maehle, Germany

1:00-1:25pm
"A Fault-Tolerance Layer for Distributed Fault-Tolerant Hard Real-Time  Systems"
C. Tanzer*, S. Poledna*, E. Dilger**, T. Fuhrer**
*TTTech Computertechnik GmbH, Austria; **Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany

1:25-1:50pm
"Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Scheduling of Object-Based Tasks in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems"
Indranil Gupta, G. Manimaran, C. Siva Ram Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology, India

1:50-2:15pm
"Understanding Cooperative Byzantine Failures: A Novel Failure Classification to Enable Efficient Fault-Tolerant Protocols"
Klaus Echtle, Asif Masum, University of Essen, Germany

Session 3
Chairman H. Levendel, Motorola, USA

2:15-2:40pm
"Overhead of Coordinated Checkpointing Protocols for Message Passing Parallel Systems"
Bernd Bieker, Erik Maehle, Medizinische Universitat zu Lubeck, Institut fur Technische Informatik, Germany

2:40-3:05pm
"Design and Implementation of Fault Tolerant Parallel Software in a Distributed Environment Using a Functional Language"
Masumi Toyoshima*, Adel Cherif*, Masato Suzuki**, Takuya Katayama*
*Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan; **Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

3:05-3:25pm
"A New Fault Tolerance Strategy for Distributed Systems Based on Duplex Systems and Backward Error Recovery"
Klaus Echtle, Karsten Grans, Universitat-GH Essen, Germany

Break 3:25 - 4:00pm

Session 4
Chairman J. Hayes, University of Michigan, USA

4:00-4:25pm
"Tolerating Faults in Counting Networks"
Marc D. Riedel, Jehoshua Bruck, California Institute of Technology, USA

4:25-4:50pm
"Fault-Tolerant Multicasting in 2-D Meshes Using Extended Safety Levels"
Xiao Chen, Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Institute, USA

4:50-5:10pm
"Link-Fault Tolerant Embedding of Hamiltonian Cycle into Folded Hypercube Networks"
Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA

5:10-5:35pm
"Minimal and Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Routing in ServerNet 2D Torus Network"
D. Avresky, Boston University, USA

5:35-6:00pm
Closing Session