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

2224E Collaborative Innovation Center,
4720 Forbes Ave,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213

foprea (at) ece (dot) cmu (dot) edu

+412-268-6092 (phone)

+412-268-6779 (fax)