Michal Szymaniak

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While at the VU, I worked on the Globule project, where we developed an open-source,
peer-to-peer content delivery network.
The title of my PhD thesis is Latency-Driven Replication for Globally Distributed Systems.
It was written under the supervision of Prof. Maarten van Steen and Dr. Guillaume Pierre.
A side-effect of my research was SCoLE, a distributed latency estimation system deployed on PlanetLab.
SCoLE gathered latency information about tens of thousands of Web clients every day.
The collected data were used in a number of research publications
[ icpads2004, scc2004, sigops2004, saint2005 ].
Fun factor: my research on Mobile IPv6 handoffs has led to producing a short video-clip series.
Combine that with moving to California and the last name sounding like 'Shh-something',
and you can figure out where I am headed :-)
You can find out a bit more about me from my resume.

Journal:

Practical Large-Scale Latency Estimation,
Elsevier's Computer Networks, Vol. 52, No. 7, April 2008.
Enabling Service Adaptability with Versatile Anycast,
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 19, No. 13, September 2007.
Latency-Driven Replica Placement (Extended Version),
Invited Article, IPSJ Journal, Vol. 47, No. 8, August 2006.
Replication for Web Hosting Systems,
ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 36, No. 3, September 2004.

Conference:

Versatile Anycasting with Mobile IPv6,
Proceedings of the 2006 ICST International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms
for Internet Delivery and Applications (AAA-IDEA2006), Pisa, Italy, October 2006 [slides]
Latency-Driven Replica Placement,
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT2005),
Trento, Italy, February 2005 (Best Paper Award) [slides]
Scalable Cooperative Latency Estimation,
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS2004),
Newport Beach, CA, USA, July 2004 [slides]
NetAirt: A Flexible Redirection System for Apache,
Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet (ICWI2003),
Algarve, Portugal, November 2003 [slides]

Other:

From Web Servers to Ubiquitous Content Delivery,
Book chapter in Global Data Management, IOS Press, July 2006.
A Single-Homed Ad Hoc Distributed Server,
Technical Report IR-CS-013, Vrije Universiteit, March 2005.
A DNS-based Client Redirector for the Apache HTTP Server,
Master's thesis, Vrije Universiteit / Warsaw University, June 2002.

Ad Hoc Distributed Servers,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, February 2006.
Stable Node Positioning,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, November 2005.
Deciding on Satellite Placement,
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA, October 2005.
Latency-Driven Replica Placement,
The 11th Annual ASCI Conference, Heijen, The Netherlands, June 2005.
Wide-Area Handoffs in Ad Hoc Distributed Servers,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, April 2005.
SCoLE: Scalable Cooperative Latency Estimation,
The 10th Annual ASCI Conference, Port Zelande, The Netherlands, June 2004.
Streaming Content Delivery in Peer-to-Peer Networks,
Technical University Delft, June 2004.
Principles of Distributed Redirection,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, February 2004.
SCoLE: Scalable Cooperative Latency Estimation (RIPE TTM version),
RIPE-47 Meeting, Amsterdam, January 2004.
NetAirt: a DNS-based Redirection System for Apache,
The 9th Annual ASCI Conference, Heijen, The Netherlands, June 2003.
A Framework for Web Replica Hosting Systems,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, February 2003.
Communication Between Uncoupled Processes,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, February 2002.

..was my master's project; it is the redirecting subsystem of Globule.
The name NetAirt comes from the old Scottish word airt, which means direction, or to direct, to guide.