CS 553

Reading List

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Overview

  1. Author: William B. Norton
    Title: Internet Service Providers and Peering
    Published:
    URL: readings/norton01.pdf

  2. Author: Eric A. Brewer
    Title: Lessons from Giant-Scale Services
    Published: IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 5, Num. 4
    URL: readings/brewer01.pdf

Internet

Error Modeling

  1. Author: Craig Labovitz, Abha Ahuja and Farnam Jahanian
    Title: Experimental Study of Internet Stability and Wide-Area Network Failures
    Published: Proceedings of IEEE FTCS Madison, WI, June 1999
    URL: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/techreports/cse/1998/CSE-TR-382-98.pdf

  2. Author: Bharat Chandra, Mike Dahlin, Lei Gao and Amol Nayate
    Title: End-to-end WAN Service Availability
    Published: Proceedings of USENIX USITS, San Francisco, CA, March 2001
    URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dahlin/papers/failure.pdf

  3. Author: Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat
    Title: The Costs and Limits of Availability for Replicated Services
    Published: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2001
    URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~vahdat/ps/avail-sosp01.pdf

Performance

  1. Author: Paul. Barford and Mark. E. Crovella
    Title: Critical Path Analysis of TCP Transactions
    Published: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Sept. 2000
    URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/paper-archive/sigcomm00.ps

WAN Content Distribution

  1. Author: Jia Wang
    Title: A Survey of Web Caching Schemes for the Internet
    Published: ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 29, No. 5, October 1999
    URL: http://www.research.att.com/~jiawang/web-survey.ps

  2. Author: Anawat Chankhunthod, Peter Danzig , Chuck Neerdaels, Michael Schwartz, and Kurt Worrell
    Title: A Hierarchical Internet Object Cache
    Published: USENIX Technical Conference, 1996
    URL: readings/chankhunthod96.pdf

  3. Author: Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Nitin Sharma, Neal Cardwell, Anna Karlin, and Henry M. Levy
    Title: On the Scale and Performance of Cooperative Web Proxy Caching
    Published: 17th Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP '99)
    URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/networking/websys/pubs/sosp99/sosp99.pdf

  4. Author: Kirk L. Johnson, John F. Carr, Mark S. Day and M. Frans Kaashoek
    Title: The Measured Performance of Content Distribution Networks
    Published: 5th International Web Caching and Content Delivery Workshop, May 2000
    URL: readings/johnson00.pdf

  5. Author: Mark Gritter and David R. Cheriton
    Title: An Architecture for Content Routing Support in the Internet
    Published: Proceedings of USENIX USITS, San Francisco, CA, March 2001
    URL: http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/triad/usits.ps.gz

  6. Author: Lee Breslau, Pei Cao, Li Fan, Graham Phillips, Scott Shenker
    Title: Web Caching and Zipf-like Distributions: Evidence and Implications
    Published: Proceedings of IEEE Infocom '99
    URL: readings/breslau99.ps.gz

The End-Server and Host-Facility Design

  1. Author: Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel
    Title: Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server
    Published: USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems,(USITS '97) 1997
    URL: readings/banga97.ps

  2. Author: Mark. E. Crovella, Robert. Frangioso, and M. Harchol-Balter
    Title: Connection Scheduling in Web Servers
    Published: USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '99), Oct. 1999
    URL: http://cs-www.bu.edu/faculty/crovella/paper-archive/usits99.ps

Local Content Disribution

  1. Author: Mohit Aron, Darren Sanders, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel
    Title: Scalable Content-aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers
    Published: USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2000
    URL: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/general/aron/aron.pdf

  2. Author: Azer. Bestavros, Mark. E. Crovella Jun. Liu, and David. Martin
    Title: Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures
    Published: International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '98) Oct., 1998
    URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~crovella/paper-archive/dpr-icnp98.ps

Reliability

  1. Author: Armando Fox and Eric A. Brewer
    Title: Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems
    Published:
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Denial of Service

  1. Author: Stephan Savage, David Wetherall, Anna Karlin, and Thomas Anderson
    Title: Practical Network Support For IP Traceback
    Published: Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Aug. 2000
    URL: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/savage/papers/Ton01.pdf

  2. Author: David Moore, Geoffrey Voelker, and Stephan Savage,
    Title: Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity
    Published: 2001 USENIX Security Symposium
    URL: http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2001/BackScatter/usenixsecurity01.pdf

  3. Author: Alex C. Snoeren Craig Partridge, Luis A. Sanchez, Christine E. Jones, Fabrice Tchakountio, Stephen T. Kent, W. Timothy Strayer
    Title: Hash-Based IP Traceback
    Published: Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2001.
    URL: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2001/p1-snoeren.pdf

Intrusion Detection

  1. Author: Yin Zhang and Vern. Paxson
    Title: Detecting Backdoors
    Published: Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium, Denver, CO, August 2000
    URL: http://www.aciri.org/vern/papers/backdoor-sec00.ps.gz

  2. Author: Stuart Staniford, James. A. Hoagland and Joseph. M. McAlerney
    Title: Practical Automated Detection of Stealthy Portscans
    Published: To appear in the Journal of Computer Security
    URL: readings/portscans.pdf

  3. Author: Thomas H. Ptacek and Timothy N. Newsham
    Title: Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection
    Published: NAI Whitepaper, January 1998
    URL:readings/ptacek98insertion.pdf

Location Based Services

  1. Author: Kevin S. McCurley
    Title: Geospatial Mapping and Navigation of the Web
    Published: 10th annual WWW conference
    URL: http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/278/

  2. Author: Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
    Title: An Investigation of Geographic Mapping Techniques for Internet Hosts
    Published: Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2001
    URL: http://research.microsoft.com/~padmanab/papers/sigcomm2001.pdf

Crawling and Indexing

  1. Author: Marc Najork, Janet L. Wiener
    Title: Breadth-first search crawling yields high-quality pages
    Published: 10th annual WWW conference
    URL: http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/208/

  2. Author: Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina
    Title: Building a Distributed Full-Text Index for the Web
    Published: 10th annual WWW conference
    URL: http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/275/

Client Access

  1. Author: Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, Paul Eastham, Amin Vahdat, Thomas Anderson, and David Culler
    Title: Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services
    Published: USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Jan. 1997, Anaheim, CA
    URL: http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/SmartClients/usenix97.ps

  2. Author: Frank Stajano and Alan Jones.
    Title: The Thinnest of Clients: Controlling It All Via Cellphone
    Published: Mobile Computing and Communications Review 2(4), March 1998.
    URL: readings/stajano98.pdf

  3. Author: Girija Narlikar, Lakshman Y.N. and Tin Kam Ho
    Title: TaBLA: A Client-Based Scheduling Algorithm for Web Proxy Clusters
    Published: Proc. IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), April 2001
    URL: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/girija/papers/ipccc.pdf

  4. Author: Alex C. Snoeren, David G. Andersen, and Hari Balakrishnan
    Title: Fine-Grained Failover Using Connection Migration
    Published: 3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, March 2001
    URL: