Paxos Unpacked

I am looking for PhD students to piece of occupation amongst me on my projection "Paxos Unpacked". I am attaching a brusk abstract below. The piece of occupation done hither is really useful for distributed databases together with cloud computing systems.

So if you lot are interested inward a distributed systems PhD, or you lot know soul interested inward a distributed systems PhD, delight allow me know yesteryear emailing me amongst a brusk CV together with qualifications. 

I volition take away maintain inquiry assistantship funding available for qualifying applicants later they learn accepted to the PhD plan at University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Paxos Unpacked

Due to their first-class fault-tolerance properties, Paxos protocols take away maintain been employed yesteryear many cloud computing systems for consistent coordination of clusters of computers. This projection aims to demonstrate that when properly customized, Paxos trouble solid unit of measurement of protocols tin also deliver top-notch functioning together with scalability, which they currently lack. To this end, the projection volition blueprint high-performance, scalable, practical, together with usable Paxos variants customized for unlike deployments together with run cases. Instead of developing disjoint point-solutions, the projection volition render a systematic together with principled exploration of the solution space.

Scaling Paxos together with making it practical together with customizable involves many challenges together with requires an assortment of distributed algorithmic tools together with techniques. For scaling Paxos horizontally, the projection volition investigate new in-protocol sharding together with reconfiguration strategies enabled yesteryear the flexible quorums result. For scaling Paxos vertically, the projection volition alleviate the bottleneck at the leaders yesteryear decoupling command from communication period of time together with yesteryear employing in-protocol aggregation optimizations. To render consensus every bit a lightweight serverless primitive, the projection volition prepare efficient single-instance fine-granularity consensus every bit a systems primitive together with showcase its run inward applications.

The techniques developed inward this projection volition take away maintain broader applicability to coordination protocols inward general. In club to accelerate technology transfer to academia together with industry, the projection volition showcase these techniques inward the context of a globally distributed database prototype. The projection volition also enable broader comport on through enhancing scientific/technological understanding, distributing tools together with software to the community, engaging undergraduate together with underrepresented students, together with reaching out to K-12 students. New tools, software, together with cloth volition travel created to learn students the principles of distributed systems together with reasoning most distributed protocols.

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