Amitanand S. Aiyer

About me.

I am a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Computer Sciences at UT-Austin. I work in the LASR group withProf. Lorenzo Alvisi.

Research Interests

My areas of interest include:

• Distributed Systems

• Algorithms, and

• Security

Currently, I am studying the properties of MACs and Digital Signatures.

Publications

Here is a list of my papers:
2008

•   Matrix Signatures: From MACs to Digital Signatures . 
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi, Rida A. Bazzi and Allen Clement
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-08-09.   pdf bibtex

2007

•   Bounded Wait-Free Implementation of Optimally resilient Byzantine Storage without (Unproven) Cryptographic assumptions . 
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi and Rida A. Bazzi.
  21th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2007),  September 2007.   pdf
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-07-32.   pdf bibtex

•   The Paxos Register . 
  Harry C. Li, Allen Clement, Amitanand S. Aiyer, and Lorenzo Alvisi.
  26th IEEE International Symposium Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS '07),
  Beijing, China, October 2007.   pdf

•   Information-Theoretically Secure Byzantine Paxos. . 
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi, Allen Clement, and Harry C. Li.
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-07-21.   pdf

2006

•  Key Grids: A Protocol Family for Assigning Symmetric Keys. 
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi and Mohamed G. Gouda.
  The 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols  (ICNP 2006),  November 2006. pdf bibtex slides
•  Byzantine and Multi-writer k-quorums. 
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi and Rida A. Bazzi.
  20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2006),  September 2006. pdf bibtex slides
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-06-37. pdf
  

2005

•  BAR Fault Tolerance for Cooperative Services.
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi, Allen Clement, Micheal Dahlin, Jean-Philippe Martin and Carl Porth.
  20th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), October 2005. pdf bibtex slides (award paper)
  The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences. Technical Report TR-05-10. pdf
•  On the availability of Non-strict Quorum Systems. 
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Lorenzo Alvisi and Rida A. Bazzi.
  19th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2005),  September 2005. pdf bibtex slides

2003 (Prior work at IIT-Madras for my Bachelors degree)

•  Distributed Consensus in the presence of Sectional Faults.
  Amitanand S. Aiyer, Sanketh Indarapu, Srinathan Kannan, Vinod Vaikuntanathan and C. Pandu Rangan.
  The 22nd ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2003), July 2003.

TA Information

This Spring, I am TAing Prof. Lorenzo Alvisi's course on Distributed Computing
I hold Office Hours in the ENS 31NQ; Desk 4(directions) during:

• Monday 12:00pm-01:00 pm, and
• Wednesdays 1:00pm-2:00 pm
  

Contact Information

You can find me at cubilcle 6SEo4B (South East corner of ACES 6th Floor).
 Or, e-mail me at: anand AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu