ECE 60872 Lecture Summaries

This page will give a brief summary of what topics were covered in each lecture. You should always try to attend lecture, but I recognize that this is not always possible. Therefore this information is provided for reference for personal study.

Spring 2022: Story So Far

• January 10 [Recording]
  • Start: Introduction intro.pdf
  • Introduction to the class participants
  • Course syllabus
• January 12 [Recording]
  • Application domains that need dependability --- ALA #1
  • Some costly dependability outages
• January 14 [Recording]
  • Metrics and means --- ALA #2 (relation between fault, error, failure)
• January 19 [Continuous Distributions Parts1] [Problem sheet.docx] [Recording]
  • Calculation of metrics
  • Continuous distribution start
• January 21 [Recording]
  • Exponential distribution
  • Calculation of metrics from conditional distributions
• January 24 [Continuous Distributions Parts2] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Other distributions
  • Problem sheet, problem #1
• January 26 [Class Notes][Recording]
  • Weibull and Normal distributions
  • Problem sheet, problem #2, #3
  • Continuous distribution material finished
• January 28 [Slide Deck] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Hardware dependability: Static, dynamic, hybrid
• January 31 Guest speaker, Sherman Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong "Advances in Machine Learning over Encrypted Data and Beyond" [Recording]
• February 02 [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Dependability analysis: Combinatorial modeling
• February 04 [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Non series-parallel systems
  • M-of-N systems
• February 07 [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Coding: Detectability and correctability
  • MTTF for static redundancy
• February 09: New topic - Software[Slide deck] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Hardware: Coverage of detection, reconfiguration, voter
  • Software: Model for bugs
• February 11 [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Testing approaches
  • Multi-version software: Recovery block
• February 14 [Class Nodes] [Recording] [ALA]
  • Multi-version software: N-version programming, N self checking programming
• February 16: Dependability in the News [Recording]
• February 18: Software [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Quantitative analysis of multi-version programming
  • Robust data structures
• February 25: Software [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Robust data structures
  • Jalote paper on robust B-trees
• February 28: New Topic - Distributed primitives [Slide deck] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Distributed protocol primitives
  • Fault classes
• March 02: Broadcast protocols [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Motivation
  • Reliable broadcast
• March 04: Broadcast and agreement protocols [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Relation among broadcast protocols
  • Guarantees from agreement protocols
• March 07: Byzantine agreement [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Non-authenticated protocol
  • Authenticated protocol
• March 09: Commit [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Fault-tolerant clock synchronization
  • Two-phase commit protocol
• March 11: Commit[Recording]
  • Three-phase commit protocol
• March 21: New Topic - Modeling [Slide deck] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Markov chain
  • Transition matrix
• March 23: Modeling [Slide deck] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Practical systems represented using Markov chain
  • n-step transition probability
• March 25: SAN Modeling [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • SPN modeling
  • SAN modeling
• March 28: New topic - Secure coding practices [Slide deck] [Recording]
  • Vulnerabilities due to insecure coding
  • Mitigations of vulnerabilities
• March 30: Dependability in the News discussion - TOR
• April 01: New topic - Recovery [Slide deck] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Forward error recovery
  • Backward error recovery
• April 04, 06, 08: No in class lecture New topic - Replication[Slide deck] [Class nodes 1] [Recording 1]
• Replication[Class Note 2] [Recording 2]
• Replication[Class Note 3] [Recording 3]
• Replication[Class Note 4] [Recording 4]
• April 11: Recovery [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Global state
  • Globally consistent checkpoint
• April 13: Recovery [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Synchronous checkpointing
• April 15: Recovery [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Asynchronous checkpointing
• April 18: New Topic - Big Data Security [Slide deck] [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Security for ML
  • ML for Security
• April 20: Big Data Security [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Adversarial examples
  • Adversarial example detection
• April 22: Big Data Security: Online recorded lecture
• April 26: Big Data Security [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Adversarial example detection
  • Game theory for security
• April 27: Big Data Security [Recording]
  • Behavioral economics for security
  • Federated learning security
• April 29: The Big Wrap [Class nodes] [Recording]
  • Review of all the topics that we have studied and how they fit together

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