Title:   On Local Healing in Large-Scale Networks

Speaker: Anish Arora

Place:   NE43-308
Time:    1-2:30pm
Date:    July 25, 2003

Abstract:

The spread of misinformation yielded by faults and attacks often
exaggerates the task of healing network structures.  Large-scale
networks therefore benefit from mechanisms that localize
misinformation. This talk describes a few mechanisms for local healing
that exploit the respective characteristics of sensor networks (which
we will overview at some length), traditional networks, and
distributed applications. We will illustrate the mechanisms in the
context of algorithms for sensor network clustering, internet routing,
and black-box distributed components.

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Bio: Anish Arora is a Professor of Computer Science at the Ohio State
University. His research is on fault tolerance, security, and
timeliness properties of systems, especially systems that are
distributed and networked. Recent research projects have catered to
applications of sensor networking and home networking, with support
from Darpa, NSF, and Microsoft Research.  Arora is an expert in
self-stabilization, and has chaired or co-chaired many seminars and
symposia in this area.  He is program co-chair of the 25th
International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems. Arora
received the B. Tech.  degree from the Indian Institute of Technology
at New Delhi and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Texas at Austin, all in computer science.

(URL: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~anish)