In recent years, cyber-physical systems(CPS) have gained popularity across different application domains such as earth observation, underwater exploration, air transportation systems, internet service provision, and IoT. Cheaper components and technology advancements are among the major drivers of CPS's ongoing development. Yet, the capacity of providing reliable, efficient services to end users remains a key enabler to a perennial, successful CPS design. This talk will discuss the promising benefits of distributed computing to services atop of CPS swarms, often overlooked by both operators and designers. In the process, the talk will highlight opportunities and challenges of distributed computing on CPS, and briefly introduce some key techniques and perspectives.

Guthemberg Silvestre is an assistant professor in the ReSCo Group of the Telecom Team at ENAC Lab, Toulouse, France, where he works on computer network and distributed systems. He received a PhD in 2013 from the Computer Laboratory of UPMC/Paris 6 (LIP6) of the Sorbonne University, where he worked on designing and evaluating adaptive replication schemes for edge/fog computing. He joined LAAS/CNRS at Toulouse in October 2013 as postdoctoral researcher, where he worked for two years on failure prediction and failover mechanisms for dependable distributed systems for cloud computing and network monitoring. His current research centers on designing novel fault-tolerant protocols for emerging mobile systems.