Picture of FlorinFlorian Oprea 

PhD student 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Carnegie Mellon University
Advisor: Mike Reiter.



Research Interests

I am mainly interested in distributed systems and network security. So far, my work has concentrated on approximation algorithms for quorum placement problems. I am currently investigating practical aspects that come up when deploying a quorum system on a large network.

Publications

Minimizing response time for quorum systems protocols over wide-area networks.

Florian Oprea, Michael K. Reiter

In DSN '07: Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, June 2007.

Quorum placement in networks: minimizing network congestion

Daniel Golovin, Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Michael K. Reiter

In PODC '06: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 16–25, July 2006.

Omega meets Paxos: Leader election and stability without eventual timely links

Dahlia Malkhi, Florian Oprea, Lidong Zhou

In DISC '05: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing, pages 199-213, September 2005.

Quorum placement in networks to minimize access delays

Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Michael K. Reiter.

In PODC '05: Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 87–96, July 2005.

Contact

Since January 2008 I am working at Akamai. My email address is my username (at) akamai (dot) com.