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Seminar Verteilte Systeme: Uncovering distributed computing principles

Semester
Winter 2020/2021
Module #INF-VS-041
ProgrammesComputer Science Bachelor, Computer and Communication Systems Engineering Bachelor, Business Information Systems Bachelor, Computer Science Master, Computer and Communication Systems Engineering Master, Business Information Systems Master
IBR GroupDS (Prof. Kapitza)
TypeSeminar
Lecturer
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Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza
Ehemaliger Abteilungsleiter
rrkapitz[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Assistant
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Ines Messadi
Ehemalige Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
messadi[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Credits5
Hours0+2
Time & Place

Kick-Off Meeting: Tuesday, 03.11, 1:00. All potential questions regarding the seminar (difficulty of topics, presentation style, etc.) will be answered during the kick-off meeting. The seminar wil happen entirely online: https://bbb.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/b/ine-2a7-pg3

Certificates

Submission of an substantial essay and successful presentation. The grade is determined by the activity in the seminar as well as the quality of essay and presentation.

Registration

The number of participants is limited to 15 students.

The registration is only possible via StudIP.

Content
In the last decade, we have seen many interesting developments distributed systems and how to build applications on top of them. The seminar will cover distributed computing principles and the idea behind fault-tolerant, scalable, and maintainable distributed applications. We will look at current ongoing research and new techniques to optimize, secure, and verify distributed protocols. Each meeting consists of a presentation and a discussion about the topics, as well as answering a chosen research question. The topics include:
  • Fault-tolerance, cryptography, and security
  • Can we formally verify distributed fault-tolerant protocols?
  • Replication protocols and optimization techniques
  • What different consistency models and what are the tradeoffs?
  • How can we reach a planet-scale system?
  • Hybrid protocols using trusted execution environment

The following is a preliminary list of topics. The papers might be extended or changed.

Seminar Topics

Topic
1) Effect of Remote Direct Memory Access on agreement and replication
  • Microsecond Consensus for Microsecond Applications (OSDI'20)
2) Formally verified Fault-tolerant protocols

  • Velisarios: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols Powered by Coq
3) Adaptive security and trust infrastructure
  • SBFT: A Scalable and Decentralized Trust Infrastructure
  • EPIC: Efficient Asynchronous BFT with Adaptive Security
4) Replication protocols, partitioning and consistency
  • Building Consistent Transactions with Inconsistent Replication
  • Hermes: a Fast, Fault-Tolerant and Linearizable Replication Protocol
5) Using Trusted execution environement for replication
  • ReplicaTEE: Enabling Seamless Replication of SGX Enclaves in the Cloud
6) Automated testing of Fault tolerant protocols
  • Twins: White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing
7) How to scale replicated systems?
  • State-Machine Replication for Planet-Scale Systems
Material
The material is only available to registered attendees. In order to register, you need either an IBR POSIX account or a self-activated IBR-y-account. Afterwards you can login to this site.
Chapter
Slides
Exercises
1. Kick-off
pdf
2. Deadlines
pdf
3. Velisarios, Formal Verification of Byzantine Fault Tolerant Protocols
pdf
4. Using RDMA for Replication Protocols
pdf
5. Leaderless BFT Replication
pdf
Schedule
[ Subscribe Calendar | Download Calendar ]
03.11.2020, 13:00
Kick-Off Meeting (BBB)
11.01.2021, 16:45
Velisarios: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols Powered by Coq (BBB)
18.01.2021, 16:45
Remote Direct Memory Access on agreement and replication (BBB)
25.01.2021, 16:45
Leaderless Fault-Tolerant Replication (BBB)
References

Review Template Download

On World-Wide-Web, there are different ways to enhance your seminar presentations:

  • How to Read a Paper, S. Keshav, University of Waterloo
  • How to Give a Talk, Paul N. Edwards, School of Information, University of Michigan
  • How to Give a Good Presentation

For the literature review there links might be helpful:

  • ACM Digital Library
  • IEEE Xplore
  • Network Bibliography
  • Citeseer (Research Index) citation index
  • Google Scholar

(La)TeX Tips + Tricks

The Seminar

The preferred language for talk and essay is english. Each participant will take one or more papers under a specific topic. Participants are responsible for a peer review, including:

  • Attend peer's presentation dry run and give feedback.
  • Review peer's essay before submission.
  • Collect questions to peer's presentation during discussion session.

Notes

Please submit the essay as well as your presentation slides. The requirements for presentation and essay are listed as follows:

  • Presentation and essay preferably in English.
  • Presentation time about 20 minutes.
  • Essay should comprise exact 6 pages without references.

Each participant is supposed to do further research based on the paper. The supervisors are always glad to help in this case.

The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. In this seminar, essays must be done in your own words. Plagiarism is an offense against the examination regulations.

Templates

The LaTeX template for seminar essay can be found here.

Additional considerations for the design of the essay can be found on the website of IBR.

LaTeX templates for presentation slides can be found here.

Additional considerations for the design can be found on the website of IBR.


last changed 2021-06-23, 09:26 by Mohammad Mahhouk

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