Fernando Pedone  Associate Professor  University of Lugano (USI)  Faculty of Informatics  Via Giuseppe Buffi 6  CH-6904 - Lugano  Switzerland    E-mail: firstname.lastname(at)usi.ch    Phone: +41 58 666 4695  Fax: +41 58 666 4536  Curriculum Vitae

Replication: Theory and Practice

Research

I'm interested in the theory and practice of distributed systems and distributed data management systems. My theoretical work has addressed algorithmic aspects of reliable distributed systems, such as defining new abstractions for building reliable systems, creating algorithms implementing these abstractions and proving them correct, and establishing related lower bounds. Systems work has considered using group communication abstractions to build replicated data management systems. To a large extent, I have been interested in the interplay between theory and practice.

Recent publications

M. Allani, B. Garbinato and F. Pedone
Resource-Aware Multimedia Content Delivery: A Gambling Approach
Computer Journal, (2009)
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M. Allani, B. Garbinato, A. Malekpour and F. Pedone
Reliable Communication Infrastructure for Adaptive Data Replication
11th International Symposium on Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications (DOA 2009)
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N. Schiper, P. Sutra and F. Pedone
Genuine versus Non-Genuine Atomic Multicast Protocols for Wide Area Networks: An Empirical Study
28th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2009)
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A. Malekpour, F, Pedone, M. Allani and B. Garbinato
Streamline: An Architecture for Overlay Multicast
8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2009)
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M. Allani, B. Garbinato, A. Malekpour and F. Pedone
QuoCast: A Resource-Aware Algorithm for Reliable Peer-to-Peer Multicast
8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2009)
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Publications by year: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 199x

From other sources: DBLP, Google Scholar, CiteSeer

Research group Amirhossein Malekpour (PhD student) Parisa Jalili Marandi (PhD student) Ricardo Padilha (PhD student) Marco Primi (PhD student) Nicolas Schiper (Post-doc) Daniele Sciascia (PhD student)

PhD's and MSc's

Lasaro Camargos (PhD thesis), Microsoft, US
Vaide Narvaez (PhD thesis), Payap University, TH
Rodrigo Schimdt (PhD thesis), Facebook, US
Nicolas Schiper (PhD thesis), USI, CH
Marco Primi (MSc thesis), USI, CH
Daniele Sciascia (MSc thesis), USI, CH

Projects

Sprint: adaptive data management for main-memory database clusters
Gorda: open replication of databases
Swift: system support for distributed dynamic content web services
Colloc: A Replication Engine for Peer to Peer Content Management in Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Teaching

Computer Systems (Spring 2009, Spring 2008)
Distributed Algorithms (Fall 2009, Fall 2008)
Distributed Systems (Fall 2009)

Events

29th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2010)
5th Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (DADS 2010)
40th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2010)
5th European Conference on Systems Research (EuroSys 2010)