COPS and HPDC Best Paper Awards

The paper I presented at the COPS 2008 Workshop, “Social VPNs: Integrating Overlay and Social Networks for Seamless P2P Networking” won the workshop’s best paper award. This was joint work with Renato Figueiredo, Pierre St. Juste, and David Wolinsky.

The SocialVPN project uses social networking to build P2P VPNs. It makes it trivial to communicate, play games, share music, etc. with anyone in your social network with any IP-compatible software. You can find the slides here. Below, you will see a photo of me giving the talk:

Giving the SocialVPN Talk

In addition, a related work: “Improving Peer Connectivity in Wide-area Overlays of Virtual Workstations” by Arijit Ganguly, David Wolinsky, and Renato Figueiredo. and myself was presented at HPDC 2008 by Arijit Ganguly. This work also won the best paper award.

Congratulations to my co-authors!

3 comments

  1. April Jun 30

    Nice beard! :)

  2. Nima Sarshar Jul 25

    Fantastic! I drop by once in a while at your site, and I enjoy it every time. Congratulations and I wish you the best.

    Nima

  3. nico Mar 11

    very good work

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