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Tenure Track Assistant Professor Networked Systems Laboratory

Dejan Kostic Networked Systems Laboratory Assistant Professor PhD (Duke University, 2005) office(s): INN310 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 GateKeeper project for allowing streaming overlays to adapt to available bandwidth. His work on the CrystalBall project has shown that it is possible to leverage the per-node increases in computational power and bandwidth to predict and prevent inconsistencies in deployed distributed systems. Most recently, he has shown how to reduce the Internet's energy consumption. CURRENT WORK Simplifying Distributed System Development (ERC Project) Reliable distributed systems and networks Energy-proportional distributed systems and networks Dejan Kostic's research is sponsored by the European Research Council, the Swiss National Science Foundation (2 grants), the Hasler Foundation, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme, and IBM Research. Full list of projects is available here. AWARDS ERC Starting Investigator Award, 2010 Best Student Paper Award, COMSNETS 2009 James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University, 2000-2004 Clinical Faculty Fellowship, Duke University, 2000 MAIN PUBLICATIONS M. Canini, D. Venzano, P. Peresini, D. Kostic, and J. Rexford. A NICE Way to Test OpenFlow Applications. In Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2012. [ Details ] N. Vasic, D. Novakovic, S. Miucin, D. Kostic, and R. Bianchini. DejaVu: Accelerating Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2012. [ Details | Full Text ] N. Vasic, D. Novakovic, S. Shekhar, P. Bhurat, M. Canini, and D. Kostic. Identifying and Using Energy-Critical Paths. In Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), 2011. [ Details | Full Text ] E. Goma, M. Canini, A. Lopez, N. Laoutaris, D. Kostic, P. Rodriguez, R. Stanojevic, and P. Yague. Insomnia in the Access (or How to Curb Access Network Related Energy Consumption). In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications, 2011. [ DOI | Details | Full Text ] M. Yabandeh, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, and V. Kuncak. Predicting and Preventing Inconsistencies in Deployed Distributed Systems. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 28(1), 2010. [ DOI | Details ] 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. [ DOI | 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 ] 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: 2012 EuroSys Doctoral Workshop EuroPar 2009 (Global chair for area 8) Poster session chair for OSDI 2008 EuroSys 2007 Authoring Workshop Technical Program Committee Member: OSDI 2012, SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012, COMSNETS 2012, HotCloud 2012, IGCC 2012, CoNEXT 2012, ENERGY 2012 SIGMETRICS 2011, ICDCS 2011, Multimedia 2011, ITC 2011, ICDE 2011, NSDI 2010, IPTPS 2010 ROADS 2009, ICDCS 2009, COMSNETS 2009 OSDI 2008, IWQoS 2008 EuroSys 2007, HotAC II, P2P/IP-TV 2007, GP2PC 2007, ICDCS 2007 USENIX 2006, AAA-IDEA 2006 , WWW 2006 NetDB 2006 , GP2PC 2006 ADDRESS Prof. Dejan Kostic EPFL School of Computer & Communication Sciences Office INN 310 - 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] Advanced computer networks and distributed systems [en] (SSC SIN) Operating systems [en] (SSC SEL SIN) Phd programs Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Phd Students Mihailovic Ivo Novakovic Dejan Schubert Simon Past Phd students: Vasic Nedeljko Yabandeh Maysam OPENINGS My ERC-funded PROPHET project started on Feb 1, 2011. I am actively looking for two Ph.D. students. BLOGS PROPHET blog. PROJECTS EPFL students can contact me about possible semester or master projects