Sébastien Monnet

Assistant professor (Maître de Conférences)

University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6)

The style of this page is minimalist, I'd rather spend my time doing research :-)

My publications can be found here

Address

Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
Campus de Jussieu - 4 place Jussieu
office 26-00/217
75005 Paris

E-mail: Sebastien dot Monnet at myLabName dot fr

Research interests

Large-scale distributed systems
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Fault Tolerance, replication, group membership
Consistency Models/Protocols
Middleware for Grid Computing
Data management in grids

Current research activities

I do my research activities in the REGAL research group at LIP6.
The main axes are :

The study of data mobility in P2P systems (for distributed virtual worlds). I lead a LIP6 project arround this axis.
The study of churn effect in P2P DHTs within the SPREADS project.

Previous research activities

Post-doctoral position at university of Calabria funded by the CoreGRID network of excellence, working on meta-data management within the Knowledge Grid platform.
I've done my PhD thesis in the Paris team at IRISA. The document is available here.

Main collaborations

ANR SPREADS. The SPREADS project goal is to study issues concerning peer-to-peer data storage. A 3-year project started in 2007, participant.
CoreGRID network of excellence. I am on a postdoctoral position at university of Calabria, under the supervision of Prof. Domenico Talia. I made a short visit at TU Delft, visiting Prof. Dick Epema.
URBANA - CNRS-INRIA-UIUC Cooperation. Collaboration with Indranil Gupta (Assistant Professor) Department of Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
ACI MD "GDS" (for Grid Data Service).

Current teaching activities at UPMC

Previous teaching activities

I've been teaching at IFSIC, University of Rennes I

2005-2006

Practical training and tutorials in system (C, make, shell, perl, cvs, etc.)
Practical training and tutorials in synchronization (implementation using Java)

2004-2005

Practical training and tutorials in system (C, make, cgi scripts, etc.)
Practical training and tutorials in Mathematica

2003-2004

Practical training and tutorials in Mathematica
Practical works in Java (synchronization)
Practical works in systems (C)

Selected Publications

[1] Gabriel Antoniu, Jean-François Deverge, and Sébastien Monnet. How to bring together fault tolerance and data consistency to enable grid data sharing. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 18(13):1705–1723, November 2006.

This paper presents our approach to jointly manage fault tolerance and data consistency in a hierarchical way. It describes the bases of our contribution. Our solution is based on a decoupled software architecture providing the ability to address these two problems separately. This solution has been implemented within the JuxMem Grid Data Sharing service and has been evaluated on the experimental grid Grid'5000.

[2] Gabriel Antoniu, Loïc Cudennec, and Sébastien Monnet. Extending the entry consistency model to enable efficient visualization for code-coupling grid applications. In 6th IEEE/ACMInternational Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2006), pages 552–555, Singapore, May 2006.

In this paper we propose an extension to the entry consistency model. The consistency protocol implementing this extended model provides the ability to perform an efficient visualization of shared pieces of data. The multi-protocol architecture we have designed allows to provide a comparative evaluation of the two protocols: with and without the extension presented in this paper.

[3] Sébastien Monnet, Ramsés Morales, Gabriel Antoniu, and Indranil Gupta. MOve: Design of an application-malleable overlay. In Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems 2006 (SRDS 2006), pages 355–364, Leeds, UK, October 2006.

The research realized during our collaboration with the university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) are described in this paper. We propose the concept of malleable peer to peer overlay, an overlay which structure is able to adapt itself to the applications needs. We present a design of such an overlay and an evaluation performed thanks to a discrete event simulator.

The full list of publications can be found there.

Short Biography

Sébastien Monnet, assistant professor - University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris - France).

He's done a postdoc at University of Calabria on resource management for knowledge discovery applications running on grids within the Grid Computing Lab, under the supervision of Domenico Talia. He was a PhD student in the PARIS project-team at IRISA (Rennes, France), under the supervision of Luc Bougé and Gabriel Antoniu, and a part-time assistant teacher (MES, Moniteur de l'Enseignement Supérieur) at IFSIC, University of Rennes 1.

PhD subject : Large-scale data management in computing grids: support for fault tolerance and data consistency.

He obtained his Master degree in 2003 (operating systems, distributed computing, computer architecture) at IFSIC, University of Rennes 1.

He graduated in Computer Science in 2002 at University Blaise Pascal located in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Last update: 2009-09-01