July 2, 2020

15:00 – 15:15 (CEST).
      Rising Star in Dependability award presentation
Winner: Karthik Pattabiraman
University of British Columbia, Canada
The winner of the 2020 Rising Star in Dependability Award is:

Karthik Pattabiraman
University of British Columbia, Canada

Citation from the nomination letter:

"While traditionally, dependable computer systems have been confined to domains where cost was not a primary concern, Dr. Pattabiraman has developed innovative techniques to make computer systems dependable at low cost, thereby allowing their use in our daily lives."

Bio: Karthik Pattabiraman received his M.S and PhD. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2004 and 2009 respectively. After a post-doctoral stint at Microsoft Research (MSR), Karthik joined the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2010, where he is now an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Karthik's research interests are in error-resilient software systems, software reliability, and Internet of Things (IoT) security.  He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors including the William Carter award in 2008, the distinguished alumni early career educator award from UIUC’s Computer Science department in 2018, the 2018 Killam Faculty Research Prize and the 2016 Killam Faculty Research Fellowship from UBC, and the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) award in Canada in 2015. Karthik is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM, and the vice-chair of the IFIP Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (10.4).

Webpage: http://blogs.ubc.ca/karthik

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15:15 – 15:55 (CEST).
      Keynote #3
Keynote #3: Guaranteeing acceptable levels of performability in modern interconnection networks despite congestion
Jose Duato, Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and Professor of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
July 2 @ 15:15 - 15:55 (CEST)

As the number, variety, and sophistication of Internet applications keeps growing and the number of client requests per time unit keeps increasing, datacenters are adopting hyperscale computing solutions to scale with the demand, and provide appropriate support for interactive services. As system size increases, the cost of the interconnection network grows faster than system size, thus becoming increasingly important to carefully design it to prevent overprovisioning. However, by doing so, the network operation point moves closer to saturation, and sudden traffic bursts may lead to congestion. This situation is aggravated by the recent introduction of flow control in datacenter networks to cope with RDMA requirements. The result is a massive performance degradation whenever some network region becomes congested. Moreover, performance degradation may remain for long even after the traffic bursts that congested the network have already been transmitted. This performance degradation is not compatible with trustworthiness. In this keynote, I will show why congestion appears in an interconnection network, how it propagates, and why performance may degrade so dramatically. Different kinds of congestion will be identified. Also, a global solution to address the congestion problem will be proposed. It consists of several complementary mechanisms that cooperate to address all kinds of congestion and operate at different time scales. Some of these mechanisms have been recently incorporated into commercial products and are being standardized. Keywords: Interconnection network, congestion management, datacenters

Jose Duato is Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering (DISCA) at the Technical University of Valencia (Universitat Politècnica de València). His current research interests include interconnection networks, multicore and multiprocessor architectures, and accelerators for deep learning. He published over 500 refereed papers. According to Google Scholar, his publications received more than 16,000 citations. He proposed a theory of deadlock-free adaptive routing that has been used in the design of the routing algorithms for the Cray T3E supercomputer, the on-chip router of the Alpha 21364 microprocessor, and the IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer. He also developed RECN, a scalable congestion management technique, and a very efficient routing algorithm for fat trees that has been incorporated into Sun Microsystem's 3456-port InfiniBand Magnum switch. Prof. Duato led the Advanced Technology Group in the HyperTransport Consortium, and was the main contributor to the High Node Count HyperTransport Specification 1.0. He also led the development of rCUDA, which enables remote virtualized access to GP-GPU accelerators using a CUDA interface. Prof. Duato is the first author of the book "Interconnection Networks: An Engineering Approach". He also served as a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. Prof. Duato was awarded with the National Research Prize in 2009 and the “Rey Jaime I” Prize in 2006. He is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.


 

16:00 – 17:00 (CEST).
      Research Track #09 || Research Track #10 || Industry Track 5 || Fast Abstracts #3
Research Track #9. IoT and Cyber-physical Systems
Chaired by Chung Hwan Kim, NEC Research
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  • Hybrid Firmware Analysis for Known Mobile and IoT Security Vulnerabilities
    Pengfei Sun (Shape Security), Luis Garcia (University of California, Los Angeles), Gabriel Salles-Loustau (Rutgers University), Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University)

  • Real-Time Context-aware Detection of Unsafe Events in Robot-Assisted Surgery
    Mohammad Samin Yasar (University of Virginia), Homa Alemzadeh (University of Virginia)

  • Scalable Approach to Enhancing ICS Resilience by Network Diversity
    Tingting Li (Cardiff University), Cheng Feng (Siemens Corporate Technology), Chris Hankin (Imperial College London)

  • Cross-App Interference Threats in Smart Homes: Categorization, Detection and Handling
    Haotian Chi (Temple University), Qiang Zeng (University of South Carolina), Xiaojiang Du (Temple University), Jiaping Yu (Temple University)

Research Track #10. Byzantine to Blockchain
Chaired by Miguel Correia, University of Lisboa
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  • From Byzantine Replication to Blockchain: Consensus is only the Beginning
    Alysson Bessani (FCUL, University of Lisboa), Eduardo Alchieri (University of Brasilia), João Sousa (FCUL, University of Lisboa), André Oliveira (FCUL, University of Lisboa), Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano)

  • EPIC: Efficient Asynchronous BFT with Adaptive Security
    Chao Liu (UMBC)
    Sisi Duan (UMBC)
    Haibin Zhang (UMBC)

  • On Incentive Compatible Role-based Reward Distribution in Algorand
    Mehdi Fooladgar (Isfahan University of Technology), Mohammad Hossein Manshaei (Florida International University), Murtuza Jadliwala (University of Texas at San Antonio), Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman (Florida International University)

  • FSTR: Funds Skewness aware Transaction Routing for Payment Channel Networks
    Siyi Lin (SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY), Jingjing Zhang (SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY), Weigang Wu (SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY)

Industry Track #5. Modelling and Knowledge Representation
Chaired by Harigovind V. Ramasamy, Amazon
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List of Papers in the session and their Teasers
  • Fundamental Challenges of Cyber-Physical Systems Security Modeling
    Georgios Bakirtzis (University of Virginia), Garrett Ward (Honeywell International Inc.), Christopher Deloglos (Virginia Commonwealth University), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth University), Barry Horowitz (University of Virginia), Cody Fleming (University of Virginia)

  • Ontology Configuration Management for Knowledge-Centric Systems Engineering in Industry
    Borja Lopez (The REUSE Company), Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Eugenio Parra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Jose Luis de la Vara (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

Fast Abstracts #3
Chaired by Roberto Natella, Univ of Napoli
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List of Papers in the session and their Teasers
  • Fault Tree Analysis: Identifying Maximum Probability Minimal Cut Sets with MaxSAT
    Martín Barrère (Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London), Chris Hankin (Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London)

  • Impact of Coding Styles on Behaviours of Static Analysis Tools for Web Applications
    Ibéria Medeiros (LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa), Nuno Neves (LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa)
  • A Novel Graphical Security Model for Evolving Cyber Attacks in Internet of Things
    Dong Seong Kim (The University of Queensland), Kok Onn Chee (The University of Queensland), Mengmeng Ge (Deakin University)

 

17:10 – 18:10 (CEST).
      Research Track #11 || Research Track #12 || Best of SELSE || Fast Abstracts #4
Research Track #11. Trusted Cloud Computing
Chaired by Zhongshu Gu, IBM Research
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  • SeGShare: Secure Group File Sharing in the Cloud using Enclaves
    Benny Fuhry (SAP SE), Lina Hirschoff (SAP SE), Samuel Koesnadi (SAP SE), Florian Kerschbaum (University of Waterloo)

  • Omega: a Secure Event Ordering Service for the Edge
    Cláudio Correia (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa), Luis Rodrigues (INESC-ID, IST, ULisboa), Miguel Correia (INESC-ID / IST / Univ. Lisboa)

  • Trust Management as a Service: Enabling Trusted Execution in the Face of Byzantine Stakeholders
    Franz Gregor (TU Dresden), Wojciech Ozga (TU Dresden), Sébastien Vaucher (University of Neuchâtel), Rafael Pires (University of Neuchâtel), Do Le Quoc (TU Dresden), Sergei Arnautov (Scontain UG), André Martin (TU Dresden), Valerio Schiavoni (University of Neuchâtel), Pascal Felber (University of Neuchâtel), Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden)

  • UPA: An Automated, Accurate and Efficient Differentially Private Big-data Mining System
    Tsz On Li (The University of Hong Kong), Jianyu Jiang (The University of Hong Kong), Qi Ji (The University of Hong Kong), Chi Chiu So (The University of Hong Kong), JiaCheng Ma (The University of Hong Kong), Xusheng Chen (The University of Hong Kong), Tianxiang Shen (The University of Hong Kong), Heming Cui (The University of Hong Kong), Amy Wang (The University of Hong Kong)

Research Track #12. Formal and ML Modeling
Chaired by Gueyoung Jung, AT&T Research
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  • Enhancing Reliability-Aware Speedup Modelling via Replication
    Zaeem Hussain (University of Pittsburgh), Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh), Rami Melhem (University of Pittsburgh)

  • Service-based Resilience for Embedded IoT Networks
    Doganalp Ergenc (University of Hamburg), Jacek Rak (Gdansk University of Technology), Mathias Fischer (University of Hamburg)

  • Mining Multivariate Discrete Event Sequences for Knowledge Discovery and Anomaly Detection
    Bin Nie (College of William and Mary), Jianwu Xu (NEC Laboratories America), Jacob Alter (College of William and Mary), Haifeng Chen (NEC Laboratories America), Evegenia Smirni (College of William and Mary)

  • (practice report): Learning to Reliably Deliver Streaming Data with Apache Kafka
    Han Wu (Free University of Berlin), Zhihao Shang (Free University of Berlin), Katinka Wolter (Free University of Berlin)

Best of SELSE
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  • Software-only Triple Diverse Redundancy on GPUs for Autonomous Driving Platforms
    Sergi Alcaide (UPC - Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Leonidas Kosmidis (UPC - Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Carles Hernandez (UPV - Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Jaume Abella (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

  • A Machine Learning-based Error Model of Voltage-Scaled Circuits
    Dongning Ma (ECE Department, Villanova), Xun Jiao (ECE Department, Villanova)
  • An Overview of the Risk Posed by Thermal Neutrons to the Reliability of Computing Devices
    Daniel Oliveira (UFPR), Sean Blanchard (LANL), Nathan DeBardeleben (LANL), Stephen Wender (LANL), Fernando F. dos Santos (UFRGS), Gabriel Piscoya Davila (UFRGS), Philippe Navaux (UFRGS), Carlo Cazzaniga (STFC), Christopher Frost (STFC), Robert C. Baumann (consultant), Paolo Rech (UFRGS/LANL).
Fast Abstracts #4
Chaired by Nuno Antunes, U. Coimbra
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List of Papers in the session and their Teasers
  • The Effect of Motion on PPG Heart Rate Sensors
    Daniel Hu (Purdue University), Calvin Henry (Purdue University), Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University)

  • Reliability Analysis of Edge Scenarios using Pedestrian Mobility
    Kshitiz Goel (Purdue University), Abhishek Bhaumick (Purdue University), Peepika Kaushal (Purdue University), Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University)
  • Improving the dependability of the ECG signal for classification of heart diseases
    Bartosz Przysucha (Departmetn of Quantitative Methods in Management, Lublin University of Technology), Tomasz Rymarczyk (Research and Development Center Netrix S.A., and University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin), Dariusz Wójcik (Research and Development Center Netrix S.A.), Michał Woś (Research and Development Center Netrix S.A.), Andres Vejar ((Research and Development Center Netrix S.A., and University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin))

 

18:15 – 18:30(CEST).
      Business Meeting
Business Meeting
Chaired by Mohamed Kaaniche (LAAS-CNRS)
  • Introduction by Mohamed Kaaniche
  • Future DSNs (decided and proposals)
    • DSN-2021, Sy Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taipei (Taiwan)
    • DSN-2022, Yair Amir,  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)
    • DSN-2023, Domenico Cotroneo, Federico II University of Naples, Naples (Italy)
    • DSN-2024 (beyond) Henrique Madeira, Univ. Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal)
  • Questions & Remarks
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