27. SRDS 2008: Napoli, Italy
27th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2008), Napoli, Italy, October 6-8, 2008. IEEE 2008
Middleware and Embedded Systems

Devdatta Kulkarni, Anand Tripathi: Application-Level Recovery Mechanisms for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing. 13-22
Vinaitheerthan Sundaram, Saurabh Bagchi, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Zhiyuan Li: SeNDORComm: An Energy-Efficient Priority-Driven Communication Layer for Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks. 23-32
Security in Distributed Systems

Zhang Fu, Marina Papatriantafilou, Philippas Tsigas: Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts. 63-72
Marinho P. Barcellos, Daniel Bauermann, Henrique Sant'anna, Matheus B. Lehmann, Rodrigo B. Mansilha: Protecting BitTorrent: Design and Evaluation of Effective Countermeasures against DoS Attacks. 73-82
Dependability and Security Assessment
Rekha Bachwani, Leszek Gryz, Ricardo Bianchini, Cezary Dubnicki: Dynamically Quantifying and Improving the Reliability of Distributed Storage Systems. 85-94
Lucio Flavio Vismari, João Batista Camargo Jr.: An Absolute-Relative Risk Assessment Methodology Approach to Current Safety Critical Systems and its Application to the ADS-B based Air Traffic Control System. 95-104
JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Fei Chen, Alex X. Liu: Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies. 105-114
Gal Badishi, Amir Herzberg, Idit Keidar, Oleg Romanov, Avital Yachin: An Empirical Study of Denial of Service Mitigation Techniques. 115-124
Distributed Storage and Services
Damián Serrano, Marta Patiño-Martínez, Ricardo Jiménez-Peris, Bettina Kemme: An Autonomic Approach for Replication of Internet-based Services. 127-136
Soila Kavulya, Rajeev Gandhi, Priya Narasimhan: Gumshoe: Diagnosing Performance Problems in Replicated File-Systems. 137-146
Jing Tian, Zhi Yang, Wei Chen, Ben Y. Zhao, Yafei Dai: Probabilistic Failure Detection for Efficient Distributed Storage Maintenance. 147-156
Maohua Lu, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Shibiao Lin: An Incremental File System Consistency Checker for Block-Level CDP Systems. 157-162
Wireless and Networking Systems
Mudhakar Srivatsa, Bong-Jun Ko, Alina Beygelzimer, Venkateshwara Madduri: Scalable Topology Discovery and Link State Detection Using Routing Events. 165-174
Roberto Di Pietro, Di Ma, Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsudik: POSH: Proactive co-Operative Self-Healing in Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks. 185-194
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almeroth, S. Rao Jammalamadaka: Towards Reliable Reputations for Dynamic Networked Systems. 195-204
Distributed Algorithms
Eddy Caron, Ajoy Kumar Datta, Franck Petit, Cédric Tedeschi: Self-Stabilization in Tree-Structured Peer-to-Peer Service Discovery Systems. 207-216
Fatemeh Borran, Ravi Prakash, André Schiper: Extending Paxos/LastVoting with an Adequate Communication Layer for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. 227-236
Roberto Baldoni, Silvia Bonomi, Leonardo Querzoni, Sara Tucci Piergiovanni: Investigating the Existence and the Regularity of Logarithmic Harary Graphs. 237-246
Analysis of Distributed Protocols and Systems
Josep M. Bernabé-Gisbert, Vaide Zuikeviciute, Francesc D. Muñoz-Escoí, Fernando Pedone: A Probabilistic Analysis of Snapshot Isolation with Partial Replication. 249-258
Steven Y. Ko, Imranul Hoque, Indranil Gupta: Using Tractable and Realistic Churn Models to Analyze Quiescence Behavior of Distributed Protocols. 259-268
Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer: Formalizing System Behavior for Evaluating a System Hang Detector. 269-278
Timo Warns, Christian Storm, Wilhelm Hasselbring: Availability of Globally Distributed Nodes: An Empirical Evaluation. 279-284



