Distributed Systems

Flotilla: A scalable, modular and resilient federated learning framework for heterogeneous resources
We introduce Flotilla, a flexible and lightweight FL platform designed for real-world edge environments, offering modular strategy …
Roopkatha Banerjee, Prince Modi, Jinal Vyas, Chunduru Sri Abhijit, Tejus Chandrashekar, Harsha Varun Marisetty, Manik Gupta, Yogesh Simmhan
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Towards a Modular Federated Learning Framework on Edge Devices
In this poster, we introduce Flotilla, a modular, model-agnostic Federated Learning (FL) framework that supports synchronous …
Roopkatha Banerjee, Prince Modi, Harsha Varun Marisetty, Manik Gupta, Yogesh Simmhan
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Towards Collision Avoidance for UAVs to Guide the Visually Impaired
In this poster, we explore a mechanism to detect obstacles within a distance ’d’ ahead of a visually impaired person (VIP) …
Suman Raj, Swapnil Padhi, Ruchi Bhoot, Prince Modi, Yogesh Simmhan
Exploring the Power of Google Spanner for Distributed Transaction Processing
An overview of Google Spanner’s architecture, distributed transactions, and the TrueTime API, based on the paper by Corbett et al.
Nov 22, 2022 3 min read
Exploring the Power of Google File System: The Distributed Storage System That Revolutionized Big Data
An overview of the Google File System (GFS), its architecture, design decisions, and the assumptions behind it, based on the paper by Ghemawat et al.
Nov 19, 2022 11 min read
Understanding VMware FT: Deterministic Replay and Continuous Availability in Virtualized Environments
An in-depth look at VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) and how it achieves transparent failover for virtual machines using deterministic replay, based on the paper by Scales, Nelson, and Venkitachalam.
Sep 1, 2022 4 min read