CS 553 Spring 2003

Reading List

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• Author:A. Fox, S. D. Gribble, Y. Chawathe, E. A. Brewer, Paul Gauthier
  Title: Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services
  Published: SOSP 1997
  URL: readings/fox97.pdf

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

Classic Reliable Computer Systems and Analysis

Presenter: Neeraj Krishnan

• Title: Fundamental concepts in dependability,
  Author: A. Avizienis, J.-C. Laprie, B. Randell
  Published: Proceedings of the Third Information Survivability Workshop, October 2000.
  URL: readings/avizienis00.pdf

• Title: Approximate availability analysis of VAXcluster systems.
  Author: O. C. Ibe, R. C. Howe, and K. S. Trivedi
  Published: IEEE Trans. Rel., 38(1):146-152, Apr. 1989.
  URL: readings/ibe89.pdf

Presenter: Richard Martin

• Title: Specification and Construction of Performability Models.
  Author: J. F. Meyer and W. H. Sanders.
  Published: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Performability Modeling of Computer and Communication Systems, June, 1993.
  URL: http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/PERFORM/Papers/USAN_papers/93M01.pdf

Presenter: Zhijun He

• Title: Why do computers stop and what can be done about it?
  Author: J. Gray.
  Published: Proceedings Fifth Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems, Jan. 1986.
  URL: readings/gray85.pdf

• Title = A census of Tandem system availability between 1985 and 1990
  Author: Author = J. Gray
  Title: IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  URL: readings/gray-whystop-90.pdf

Presenter: Open

• Title = Fault tolerance under UNIX.
  Author: A. Borg, W. Blau, W. Graetsch, F. Herrmann,W. Oberle
  Published: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol.7, (no.1) Feb. 1989.
  URL: readings/borg89.pdf

Error Detection

Presenter: Vishal Shah

• Title: Pinpoint: Problem Determination in Large, Dynamic Internet Services
  Author: M. Chen, E. Kiciman, E. Brewer and A. Fox
  Published: In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2002), Washington, D.C., June 2002.
  URL:http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/roc-pinpoint-ipds.pdf

Internet Service Error Modeling and Analysis

Presenter: Andrew Tjang

• Author: M. Merzbacher, Dan Patterson
  Title: Measuring End-User Availability on the Web: Practical Experience.
  Published: International Performance and Dependability Symposium (DSN), Washington DC, June 2002.
  URL: readings/merzbacher02.pdf

Presenter: Pandurang Kamat

• Title: Why Do Internet Services Fail, and What Can Be Done About It?
  Author: David Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, and David A. Patterson
  Published: USITS 2003
  URL:http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/usits03.pdf

Presenter: Neeraj Krishnan

• Title: Using Fault Injection and Modeling to Evaluate the Performability of Cluster-Based Services
  Author: Kiran Nagaraja, Xiaoyan Li, Ricardo Bianchini, Richard P. Martin, and Thu D. Nguyen,
  Published: USITS 2003
  URL: http://www.panic-lab.rutgers.edu/Research/mendosus/publications/DCS-TR-491.pdf

Presenter: Richard Martin

• Title: A Probabilistic Approach to Estimating Computer System Reliability
  Author: Robert Apthorpe
  Published: LISA 2001
  URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2001/tech/apthorpe.html

Human Factors

Presenter: Nitin Shetti

• Title: Task-Analytic Models of Human Operators: Designing Operator-Machine Interaction
  Author: Christine M. Mitchell
  Published: Technical report, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996.
  URL: readings/mitchell96.pdf

• Title: Risk Analysis, Impact and Interaction Modelling
  Author: A.M. Dearden, M.D. Harrison
  Publishbed: Proceedings of DSVIS 96
  URL: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/35406.html

Presenter: Kiran Nagaraja

• Title: Towards Availability and Maintainability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems
  Author: Aaron B. Brown
  Published: UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB/CSD-01-1132, Jan. 2001 (Note: Read the Full TR, not the Usenix version)
  URL: readings/brown01.pdf

Network Performance Measurement

Presenter: Marina Surlevich

• Title: Server-based Inference of Internet Performance
  Author: V. N. Padmanabhan, L. Qiu, and H. Wang
  Published: IEEE Infocom 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2003
  URL: readings/padmanabhan03.pdf

Presenter: Cindy Hu

• Title: Maximum likelihood network topology identification from edge-based unicast measurements.
  Author: Mark Coates, Rui Castro, Robert Nowak, Manik Gadhiok, Ryan King, Yolanda Tsang
  Published: SIGMETRICS 2002
  URL: readings/coates01.pdf

Presenter: open

• Author: Krishna P. Gummadi, Stefan Saroiu, and Steven D. Gribble.
  Title: King: Estimating Latency between Arbitrary Internet End Hosts
  Published: Proceedings of SIGCOMM IMW 2002, Marseille, France, November 2002
  URL:

End Service Performance

Presenter: Lev Kaufman

• Author: Matt Welsh and David E. Culler
  Title: Adaptive Overload Control for Busy Internet Servers
  Published: USITS 2003
  URL: readings/welch03.pdf

Presenter: Cindy Hu

• Author: Kai Shen, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu
  Title: Integrated Resource Management for Cluster-based Internet Services
  Published: OSDI 2002
  URL: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~kshen/papers/osdi2002.pdf

Presenter: Kiran Nagaraja

• Title: EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring
  Author: Yun Fu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Wenting Tang, Amin Vahdat
  Published: USENIX 2002
  URL: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix02/fu.html

Presenter: open

• Title: Measuring Client-Perceived Response Times on the WWW
  Author: Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Mootaz Elnozahy
  Published: USITS 2001
  URL:

Location Based Services and Localization

Presenter: Su Chen

• Title: The Computer for the 21st Century
  Author: Mark Weiser
  Published: Scientific American, September, 1991
  URL: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html

Presenter: Nitin Shetti

• Title: GeoNotes: Social and Navigational Aspects of Location-Based Information Systems.
  Author: Fredrik Espinoza, Per Persson,Anna Sandin, Hanna Nystrom,Elenor Cacciatore , Markus Bylund
  Published: UBICOMP 2001
  URL: readings/espinoza01.pdf

Presenter: Vishal Shah

• Title: Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources
  Author: J. Ding, L. Gravano, N. Shivakumar
  Published: 26th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2000
  URL: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gravano/Papers/2000/vldb00.pdf

Presenter: open

• Title: An Architecture for Geographically-Oriented Service Discovery on the Internet
  Author: Qiyan Li
  Published: University of Waterloo Master's Thesis, 2002
  URL: readings/li02.pdf

Presenter: Pandurang Kamat

• Title: Enhancements to the RADAR User Location and Tracking System
  Author: Paramvir Bahl, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Anand Balachandran
  Published:
  URL: http://www.research.microsoft.com/~padmanab/papers/msr-tr-2000-12.pdf

Presenter: Lev Kaufman

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

• Title: A Hybrid Location Model with Computable Location Identifier for Ubiquitous Computing,
  Author: Changhao Jiang, Peter Steenkiste.
  Published: UbiComp'02, Goteborg, Sweden, 2002
  URL: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jiangch/pub/ubicomp-02.pdf