Important Dates
2021 Carter and Rising Star Award Nominations
The deadlines for nominations for the Carter and Rising Star wards have been extended to January 31, 2021.
2021 Laprie Award Nominations
Nominations for the 2021 Laprie Award are due on December 1, 2020. more ...
Dependable Systems and Networks Symposium
June 21 - June 4, 2021, Taipei, Taiwan
The premier international conference for presenting the very best research results, problem solutions, and insight on new challenges facing the field of dependability and security. more...
The DSN Hall of Fame
A ranking by number of papers published by authors in DSN and its predecessor conference FTCS.IEEE Technical Committe on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
Is aimed at identifying and integrating approaches, methods and techniques for specifying, designing, building, assessing, validating, operating and maintaining computer systems where faults are considered as natural, anticipated events, and thus, can be tolerated. more...
IFIP Working Group 10.4
Is concerned with progress in understanding of faults, specification and design methods for dependability, methods of error dection and processing, more...
2020 Laprie Award Winner
The IFIP 10.4 working group on Dependable Computing created the award in honor of the late Jean-Claude Laprie in 2011. It recognizes outstanding papers that have significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of Dependable Computing. For 2020, the award committee has selected:
Ateniese, G., Di Pietro, R., Mancini, L. V., Tsudik, G. Scalable and Efficient Provable Data Possession. In Proc. 4th Intl. Conf. on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Istanbul, Turkey (September 2008), Art. No.9, pp.1-10, https://doi.org/10.1145/1460877.1460889.
Citation
“Scalable and Efficient Provable Data Possession" by Giuseppe Ateniese, Roberto Di Pietro, Luigi V. Mancini, and Gene Tsudik established the basis for provable data possession based on highly-efficient symmetric key cryptography. The paper was seminal in allowing the outsourcing of dynamic data, i.e., by efficiently handling operations such as block modification, deletion, and append. This is the first solution to provide these properties and is still unsurpassed. The paper had a considerable impact on the field. In addition to the academic impact (1300+ citations), the proposed PDP method is at the core of the many solutions that remotely check data consistency (e.g., distributed databases, online social networks, remote data backup), and is finding its way in blockchain technologies. More broadly, the paper is instrumental in forming a bridge between the research communities on security and on dependable systems and networks. As Jean-Claude Laprie used to remind us, security is indeed one of the five fundamental attributes of dependability. For these reasons, the selection committee has unanimously selected this ground-breaking publication which is well-deserving of this award.”DSN 2020 awards announced
Rising Star in Dependability Award: Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia, CA
Carter award: Bo Fang, University of British Columbia, CA, Dissertation Title: Approaches for Building Error Resilient Applications
- Peng Xie, Jason H. Li, Xinming Ou, Peng Liu, Renato Levy, Using Bayesian networks for cyber security analysis, (DSN’10), DCCS Track
- Michael Grottke, Allen P. Nikora, Kishor S. Trivedi, An empirical investigation of fault types in space mission system software, (DSN'10), PDS Track
2019 Laprie Award Winners
The IFIP 10.4 working group on Dependable Computing created the award in honor of the late Jean-Claude Laprie in 2011. It recognizes outstanding papers that have significantly influenced the theory and/or practice of Dependable Computing. For 2019, the award committee has selected:
Huang, Y., Kintala, C., Kolettis, N., & Fulton, N.D. Software Rejuvenation: Analysis, Module and Applications. In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS), Pasadena, CA, USA (June 1995), 381-390.
Citation
Software Rejuvenation: Analysis, Module and Applications by Yennun Huang, Chandra Kintala, Nick Kolettis, and N. Dudley Fulton is a seminal paper that established the idea of proactively restarting software systems to avoid issues related to software aging as a mainstream fault-tolerance technique. While the value of periodic restarts had long been part of the computing folklore, this was the first paper to provide both a sound scientific framework for the approach and compelling evidence of its value as a technique for increasing availability in production systems. The impact of the paper on the field has been profound. On the research side, it created a new area and established what is still an active community investigating various aspects of software rejuvenation. On the practical side, the technology it originated is now applied routinely in areas as diverse as telecommunications systems, web applications, network devices, and spacecraft software. This publication is an excellent example of a ground-breaking paper, and is well-deserving of this award.
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