Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International initiatives

Inria associate teams

RADCON

• Title: Randomized Algorithms for Distributed Computing and Networks

• Inria principal investigator: George Giakkoupis

• International Partner:

  • University of Calgary (Canada) - Department of Computer Science - Philipp Woelfel

• Duration: 2013 - 2015

• See also: http://www.irisa.fr/asap/radcon

• Over recent years, computing systems have seen a massive increase in parallelism and interconnectivity. Peer-to-peer systems, ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, or the "cloud" are based on highly connected and volatile networks. Individual nodes such as cell phones, desktop computers or high performance computing systems rely on parallel processing power achieved through multiple processing units. To exploit the power of massive networks or multiple processors, algorithms must cope with the scale and asynchrony of these systems, and their inherent instability, e.g., due to node, link, or processor failures. In this research project we explore randomized algorithms for large-scale networks of distributed systems, and for shared memory multi-processor systems. For large-scale networks, decentralized gossip protocols have emerged as a standard approach to achieving fault-tolerant communication between nodes with simple and scalable algorithms. We will devise new gossip protocols for various complex distributed tasks, and we will explore the power and limits of gossip protocols in various settings. For shared memory systems, randomized algorithms have proved extremely useful to deal with asynchrony and failures. Sometimes probabilistic algorithms provide the only solution to a problem; sometimes they are more efficient; sometimes they are simply easier to implement. We will devise efficient algorithms for some of the fundamental problems of shared memory computing, such as mutual exclusion, renaming, and consensus.

Inria international partners

• University of Calgary

• Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

• University of Glasgow

Participation in international programs

Demdyn: Inria/CNPq Collaboration

Participants : Marin Bertier, Michel Raynal.

The aim of this project is to exploit dependable aspects of dynamic distributed systems such as VANETs, WiMax, Airborn Networks, DoD Global Information Grid, P2P, etc. Applications that run on these kind of networks have a common point: they are extremely dynamic both in terms of the nodes that take part of them and available resources at a given time. Such dynamics results in instability and uncertainty of the environment which provide great challenges for the implementation of dependable mechanisms that ensure the correct work of the system. This requires applications to be adaptive, for instance, to less network bandwidth or degraded Quality-of-Service (QoS). Ideally, in these highly dynamic scenarios, adaptiveness characteristics of applications should be self-managing or autonomic. Therefore, being able to detect the occurrence of partitions and automatically adapting the applications for such scenarios is an important dependable requirement for such new dynamic environments.