27. PODC 2008: Toronto, Canada
Rida A. Bazzi, Boaz Patt-Shamir (Eds.): Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2008, Toronto, Canada, August 18-21, 2008. ACM 2008 ISBN 978-1-59593-989-0
Joseph Y. Halpern: Beyond nash equilibrium: solution concepts for the 21st century. 1-10
Donald F. Towsley: The internet is flat: a brief history of networking in the next ten years. 11-12
Peter Druschel: Accountability for distributed systems. 13-14
R1

Leonid Barenboim, Michael Elkin: Sublogarithmic distributed MIS algorithm for sparse graphs using nash-williams decomposition. 25-34
Johannes Schneider, Roger Wattenhofer: A log-star distributed maximal independent set algorithm for growth-bounded graphs. 35-44
Baruch Awerbuch, Andréa W. Richa, Christian Scheideler: A jamming-resistant MAC protocol for single-hop wireless networks. 45-54
R2
Piotr Zielinski: Anti-Omega: the weakest failure detector for set agreement. 55-64


R3
Alex X. Liu, Fei Chen: Collaborative enforcement of firewall policies in virtual private networks. 95-104
Shlomi Dolev, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Calvin C. Newport: Secure communication over radio channels. 105-114
B. V. Ashwinkumar, Arpita Patra, Ashish Choudhary, Kannan Srinathan, C. Pandu Rangan: On tradeoff between network connectivity, phase complexity and communication complexity of reliable communication tolerating mixed adversary. 115-124
Shlomi Dolev, Danny Hendler, Adi Suissa: CAR-STM: scheduling-based collision avoidance and resolution for software transactional memory. 125-134
R4
Chryssis Georgiou, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Dariusz R. Kowalski: On the complexity of asynchronous gossip. 135-144
Edward Bortnikov, Maxim Gurevich, Idit Keidar, Gabriel Kliot, Alexander Shraer: Brahms: byzantine resilient random membership sampling. 145-154
Petra Berenbrink, Robert Elsässer, Tom Friedetzky: Efficient randomised broadcasting in random regular networks with applications in peer-to-peer systems. 155-164
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Laura J. Poplawski, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Ravi Sundaram, Shang-Hua Teng: Bounded budget connection (BBC) games or how to make friends and influence people, on a budget. 165-174
R5

Amos Korman: Improved compact routing schemes for dynamic trees. 185-194
Yvonne Anne Oswald, Stefan Schmid, Roger Wattenhofer: Tight bounds for delay-sensitive aggregation. 195-202
Tom Hayes, Navin Rustagi, Jared Saia, Amitabh Trehan: The forgiving tree: a self-healing distributed data structure. 203-212
R6
Andrea E. F. Clementi, Claudio Macci, Angelo Monti, Francesco Pasquale, Riccardo Silvestri: Flooding time in edge-Markovian dynamic graphs. 213-222
Yuval Emek, Erez Kantor, David Peleg: On the effect of the deployment setting on broadcasting in Euclidean radio networks. 223-232
Gregory Chockler, Seth Gilbert, Nancy A. Lynch: Virtual infrastructure for collision-prone wireless networks. 233-242
Valerie King, Cynthia A. Phillips, Jared Saia, Maxwell Young: Sleeping on the job: energy-efficient and robust broadcast for radio networks. 243-252
R7
Seth Pettie: Distributed algorithms for ultrasparse spanners and linear size skeletons. 253-262
Maleq Khan, Fabian Kuhn, Dahlia Malkhi, Gopal Pandurangan, Kunal Talwar: Efficient distributed approximation algorithms via probabilistic tree embeddings. 263-272
Bilel Derbel, Cyril Gavoille, David Peleg, Laurent Viennot: On the locality of distributed sparse spanner construction. 273-282
Lei Guo, Enhua Tan, Songqing Chen, Zhen Xiao, Xiaodong Zhang: The stretched exponential distribution of internet media access patterns. 283-294
R8
Armando Castañeda, Sergio Rajsbaum: New combinatorial topology upper and lower bounds for renaming. 295-304
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Sam Toueg: Timeliness-based wait-freedom: a gracefully degrading progress condition. 305-314
James Aspnes, Hagit Attiya, Keren Censor: Randomized consensus in expected O(n log n) individual work. 325-334
R9
Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Michael Segal: Packet mode and QoS algorithms for buffered crossbar switches with FIFO queuing. 335-344
Ming Zhong, Pin Lu, Kai Shen, Joel I. Seiferas: Optimizing data popularity conscious bloom filters. 355-364
Thomas Moscibroda, Onur Mutlu: Distributed order scheduling and its application to multi-core dram controllers. 365-374
R10

Michael Ben-Or, Danny Dolev, Ezra N. Hoch: Fast self-stabilizing byzantine tolerant digital clock synchronization. 385-394
Ittai Abraham, Danny Dolev, Joseph Y. Halpern: An almost-surely terminating polynomial protocol forasynchronous byzantine agreement with optimal resilience. 405-414
B1-1

Michael Dinitz: Online and dynamic embeddings of approximate ultrametrics. 416
Goran Konjevod, Andréa W. Richa, Donglin Xia: Dynamic routing and location services in metrics of low doubling dimension. 417
Mark Braverman: On ad hoc routing with guaranteed delivery. 418
Roman Vitenberg, Ricardo Jiménez-Peris: Maximizing quorum availability in multi-clustered systems. 420
B1-2
Chafika Benzaid, Nadjib Badache: BMobi_Causal: a causal broadcast protocol in mobile dynamic groups. 421
José Enrique Armendáriz-Iñigo, José Ramón Juárez-Rodríguez, José Ramón González de Mendívil, Francesc D. Muñoz-Escoí: Correctness criteria for replicated database systems with snapshot isolation replicas. 422

Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas C. Nicolaou, Alexander A. Shvartsman: On the robustness of (semi) fast quorum-based implementations of atomic shared memory. 425
Christian Cachin, Idit Keidar, Alexander Shraer: Principles of untrusted storage: a new look at consistency conditions. 426
B2-1
Vincent Gramoli, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Robbert van Renesse: A fast distributed slicing algorithm. 427
Michael Backes, Marek Hamerlik, Alessandro Linari, Matteo Maffei, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Gerhard Weikum: Anonymous and censorship resistant content sharing in unstructured overlays. 429
Alex Brodsky: Our brothers' keepers. 430
Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erwan Le Merrer: Distributed churn measurement in arbitrary networks. 431
Yi Gu, Qishi Wu, Mengxia Zhu, Nageswara S. V. Rao: Efficient pipeline configuration in distributed heterogeneous computing environments. 432
B2-2
Song Guo, Minyi Guo, Victor C. M. Leung: A tradeoff analysis on message complexity and lifetime optimality for a distributed multicast algorithm in WSNs. 433
Amitabha Bagchi, Sohit Bansal: Nearest-neighbor graphs on random point sets and their applications to sensor networks. 434
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Achour Mostéfaoui, Michel Raynal, Gilles Trédan, Aline Carneiro Viana: From anarchy to geometric structuring: the power of virtual coordinates. 435
Haibo Zhang, Hong Shen, Yawen Chen, Zonghua Zhang: Balancing energy consumption for uniform data gathering wireless sensor networks. 436
Ajay Gulati: Power management of devices: when should i switch off? 438
B3-1
Baruch Awerbuch, Rohit Khandekar: Greedy distributed optimization of unsplittable multicommodity flows. 439
Baruch Awerbuch, Rohit Khandekar: Stateless distributed algorithms for near optimal maximum multicommodity flows. 440
Hariharan Narayanan: Distributed averaging in the presence of a sparse cut. 441
Roberto Di Pietro, Pietro Michiardi: Gossip-based aggregate computation: computing faster with non address-oblivious schemes. 442
Sylvie Delaët, Stéphane Devismes, Mikhail Nesterenko, Sébastien Tixeuil: Snap-stabilization in message-passing systems. 443
Edward Bortnikov, Israel Cidon, Idit Keidar: Dynamic service assignment in mobile networks: the magma approach. 444
BA3-2
Louis K. Helm: Quantum distributed consensus. 445
Hagit Attiya, Danny Hendler, Philipp Woelfel: Tight RMR lower bounds for mutual exclusion and other problems. 447
Robert Danek, Wojciech M. Golab: Closing the complexity gap between mutual exclusion and FCFS mutual exclusion. 448
Colette Johnen, Lisa Higham: Fault-tolerant implementations of atomic registers by safe registers in networks. 449
Alberto Lafuente, Mikel Larrea, Iratxe Soraluze Arriola, Roberto Cortiñas: Optimal failure detection with low sporadic overhead and communication locality. 450
B4-1
Justin Emile Gottschlich, Daniel A. Connors: Optimizing consistency checking for memory-intensive transactions. 451
Phuong Hoai Ha, Philippas Tsigas, Otto J. Anshus: Wait-free programming for general purpose computations on graphics processors. 452
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Georgios Giannoulis, Paul G. Spirakis: Scheduling tasks with dependencies on asymmetric multiprocessors. 454
B4-2

David James, Tim Leonard, John W. O'Leary, Murali Talupur, Mark R. Tuttle: Extracting models from design documents with mapster. 456
Kannan Srinathan, Ashish Choudhary, Arpita Patra, C. Pandu Rangan: Efficient single phase unconditionally secure message transmission with optimum communication complexity. 457
Nancy Lynch celebration
Michael J. Fischer: Evolution of distributed computing theory: from concurrency to networks and beyond. 460
Roberto Segala: The power of simulation relations. 462
Seth Gilbert: On fault tolerance and wireless networks. 463
Maurice Herlihy: The future of distributed computing: renaissance or reformation? 464



