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Dejan Kostic Networked Systems Laboratory Assistant Professor PhD (Duke University, 2005) office(s): INN320 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 37591,32641 MISSION For an up-to-date list of publications, detailed list of projects, news, and classes I teach, please visit the Networked Systems Laboratory page. BIOGRAPHY Dejan Kostic obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 2005, his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, and his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Technology from the University of Belgrade (ETF). From 1995 until 1999, he worked at INET, Inc. (now Tektronix) and MakeLabs (now OpNet). He also held positions at the University of California, San Diego and Microsoft Research. Since January 2006, he has been working as a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at EPFL. His dissertation produced Bullet, a system for high bandwidth data dissemination (multimedia streaming and content distribution) for large-scale distributed systems. During the course of his Ph.D., he worked on broad aspects of constructing large-scale distributed systems. At EPFL, he started the Mirage project, an integrated software upgrade testing and distribution system, as well as the project for allowing streaming overlays to adapt to available bandwidth. His work on the new framework for deploying explicit feedback congestion control protocols was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at COMSNETS '09. Most recently, he has been working on predicting and preventing inconsistencies in deployed distributed systems. CURRENT WORK CrystalBall: Predicting and Preventing Inconsistencies in Deployed Distributed Systems Opis: Reliable Distributed Systems in OCaml Uno: a Framework for Deploying Explicit Feedback Congestion Control Protocols Mirage: Managing Software Upgrades GateKeeper: Bandwidth Adaptation in Streaming Overlays BulletMedia: P2P Video-on-Demand with DVD-like features Dejan Kostic's research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Hasler Foundation, IBM Research, and the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme. MAIN PUBLICATIONS M. Yabandeh, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, and V. Kuncak. CrystalBall: Predicting and Preventing Inconsistencies in Deployed Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09),, 2009. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] D. Kostic, A. C. Snoeren, A. Vahdat, R. Braud, C. Killian, J. W. Anderson, J. Albrecht, A. Rodriguez, and E. Vandekieft. High-bandwidth Data Dissemination for Large-scale Distributed Systems. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 26(1), 2008. [ Details ] O. Crameri, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, R. Bianchini, and W. Zwaenepoel. Staged Deployment in Mirage, an Integrated Software Upgrade Testing and Distribution System. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Stevenson, WA, U.S.A., 2007. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] J. Dunagan, N. J. A. Harvey, M. B. Jones, D. Kostic, M. Theimer, and A. Wolman. FUSE: Lightweight Guaranteed Distributed Failure Notification. In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2004. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] A. Rodriguez, C. Killian, S. Bhat, D. Kostic, and A. Vahdat. MACEDON: methodology for automatically creating, evaluating, and designing overlay networks. In Proceedings of the First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '04). USENIX Assoc, 2004. Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] D. Kostic, A. Rodriguez, J. Albrecht, B. Abhijeet, and A. Vahdat. Using Random Subsets to Build Scalable Network Services. In Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), 2003. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] D. Kostic, A. Rodriguez, J. Albrecht, and A. Vahdat. Bullet: high bandwidth data dissemination using an overlay mesh. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP), 2003. Dept. of Comput. Sci., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] A. Vahdat, K. Yocum, K. Walsh, P. Mahadevan, D. Kostic, J. Chase, and D. Becker. Scalability and accuracy in a large-scale network emulator. In Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). USENIX Assoc, 2002. Dept. of Comput. Sci., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA. [ Details | Full Text | Link ] RECENT ACTIVITIES Technical Program (Co)chair: EuroPar 2009 (Global chair for area 8) EuroSys 2007 Authoring Workshop Technical Program Committee Member: NSDI 2010 ROADS 2009 ICDCS 2009 COMSNETS 2009 USENIX OSDI 2008 IWQoS 2008 Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing Peer-to-Peer Streaming and IP-TV Workshop 2007 GP2PC 2007 Workshop EuroSys 2007 ICDCS 2007 AAA-IDEA 2006 Workshop USENIX 2006 WWW 2006 NetDB 2006 GP2PC 2006 Workshop ADDRESS Prof. Dejan Kostic EPFL School of Computer & Communication Sciences Office INN 320 - STATION 14 CH - 1015 Lausanne Switzerland

Skills Distributed systems, Computer networks, Operating systems Teaching Computer Science Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems [en] Advanced Topics in Networked Systems [en] Operating systems [en] Phd programs Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Phd Students Schubert Simon Vasic Nedeljko Yabandeh Maysam PROJECTS EPFL students can contact me about possible semester or master projects Research interests Distributed Systems Computer Networks Operating Systems