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15-612 Spring 2001 Non-Textbook Reading List

Please note:
Reading that is required and will be assigned in class is listed in black.
Additional reading which may be of interest is listed in gray

Review of Operating Systems

  Gray, J., Notes on data base operating systems, Operating Systems:
       An Advanced Course, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #60,
       Springer-Verlag, 1978.
       pdf/ps
  Quarterman, J.S, Silberschatz, A.,  and Peterson, J.L.,
       4.2BSD and 4.3BSD as examples of the UNIX system,
       Computing Surveys 17(4):419 - 470, ACM, December 1985.
       pdf/ps

Time

  Fidge, C., Logical time in distributed computing systems, Distributed
       Computing, 24(8):28-33, August 1991.
       pdf/ps

  Lamport, L., Time, clocks and the ordering of events in a distributed system.
       CACM 21(7):558-565, ACM, July 1978.
       pdf/ps

  Mills, D.L. Internet time synchronization: the Network Time Protocol. 
       Trans. Communications, 39(10):1482-1493, IEEE, October 1991.
       pdf/ps

  Mills, D.L. Network Time Protocol (Version 3) specification, implementation 
       and analysis. Network Working Group Report RFC-1305, University of 
       Delaware, March 1992, 113 pp.
       pdf/ps

  Raynal, M., Singhal, M., Logical time: capturing causality in distributed 
       systems, Computer 29(2):49-56, IEEE, February 1996.
       pdf/ps

Interprocess Communication (IPC)

  Birrell, A.D., Nelson, B.J., Implementing Remote Procedure Calls, 
       Transactions on Computer Systems 7(1):1-24, ACM, February 1989.
       pdf/ps

  Waldo, J., Wollrath, A., and Wyant, G., Simple Activation for Distributed 
       Objects, SMLI TR-95-46, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, November 1995.
       pdf/ps

Transactions and Concurrency Control

  Bernstein, P.A. and Goodman, N., Concurrency Control in Distributed
       Database Systems, Comp. Surveys 13(2):185-221, ACM, June 1981.
       pdf/ps

  Moss, E.B., An Introduction to Nested Transactions, COINS TR 86-41,
      University of Mass, Department of Computer and Information Science,
      September 1986.
       pdf/ps

  Traiger, I.L., Gray, J., et al, Transactions and Consistency in
       Distributed Database Systems, Trans. Database Sys., 7(3):323-342,
       ACM, September 1982.
       pdf/ps

Resource Scheduling (a kin of transaction scheduling)

  Boloskym W., et al, Distributed Schedule Management in the Tiger Video
       Fileserver, Proc. 16th SOSP, ACM, October 1997.
       pdf/ps

Mutual Exclusion, Including Voting

  Li, K. and Hudak, P., Memory coherency in shared virtual memory
       systems, Trans. Computer Systems 7(4):321-359, ACM, November 1989.
       pdf/ps

  Maekawa, M., A sqrt(n) algorithm for mutual exclusion in decentralized
       systems, Trans. Computer Systems 3(2):145-159, ACM, May 1985.
       pdf/ps

  Raymond, K., A tree-based algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion,
       Trans. Computer Systems 7(1):61-77, ACM, February 1989.
       pdf/ps

  Ricart, G. and Agrawala, A.K., An optimal algorithm for mutual exclusion
       in computer networks, Comm. 24(1):9-17, ACM, January 1981. 
       pdf/ps

Coordinator Election

  Garcia-Molina, H., Elections in a distributed computer system, 
       Trans. Computers C-31(2):48-59, IEEE, 1982.
       pdf/ps

  Thomas, R.H., A majority concensus approach to concurrency control 
       for multiple copy databases, Trans. Computer Systems, 4(2):180-209, 
       ACM, June 1979.
       pdf/ps

Consensus

  Lamport, L., Shostak, R., and Pease, M., The Byzantine Generals Problem,
       Trans. Prog. Lang. and Sys. 4(3):382-401, ACM, July 1982.
       pdf/ps

Deadlock

  Chandy, M., et al, Distributed Deadlock Detection, Trans. Comp Systems 
       1(2):144-156, ACM, May 1983.
       pdf/ps

  Knapp, Edgar, Deadlock Detection in Distributed Systems, Computing Surveys,
       19(4):303-328, ACM, December 1987.
       pdf/ps

  Singhal, Deadlock Detection in Distributed Systems, Computer, 22(11):37-48, 
       IEEE, November 1989.
       pdf/ps

Processor Allocation and Migration

  Douglis, F. and Ousterhout, J.K., Transparent Process Migration: Design
       Alternatives and the Sprite Implementation, Software Practice and
       Experience, 21(8):757-785, Wiley,  August 1991.
       pdf/ps

  Ferguson, D., et al, Microeconomic algorithms for load balancing in 
       distriuted computer systems, Proc. 8th Int'l Conf. Distributed 
       Computing Systems, 491-499, IEEE, 1988. 
       pdf/ps

  Litzkow, M.J., et al, Condor-a hunter of idle workstations, Proc. 8th 
       Int'l Conf. Distributed Computing Systems, 104-111, IEEE, 1988. 
       pdf/ps

  Theimer, M.M. and Lantz, K.A., Finding idle machines in a workstation-based
       distributed system, Proc. 8th Int'l Conf. Distributed Computing Systems,
       112-122, IEEE, 1988. 
       pdf/ps

  Zayas, E.R., Attacking The Process Migration Bottleneck, Proc. of
       SOSP 11:13-24, ACM, 1987.
       pdf/ps

Replicated Data Management

  Abbadi, E.L. and Toueg, S., Maintaining Availability in Partitioned 
       Replicated Databases, Trans. Database Systems 14(2):264-290,
       ACM, June 1989.
       pdf/ps

  Davidson, S.B., Garcia-Molina, H., Skeen, D., Consistency in Partitioned
       Networks, Computing Surveys 17(3):341-370, ACM, September 1985.
       pdf/ps

  Gifford, David K., Weighted Voting for Replicated Data, Proc. of 
       SOSP 7:150-162, ACM, 1979.
       pdf/ps


  Herlihy, M., Dynamic quorum adjustments for partitioned data, Trans.
       on Database Systems 12(2):170-194, ACM, June 1987.
       pdf/ps

  Parker, D.S., et al, Detection of mutual inconsistency in distributed
       systems, Trans. Software Engineering 9(3):240-246, IEEE, 1983
       pdf/ps


  Van Renesse, R. and Tannenbaum, A.S., Voting With Ghosts, 
       Proc. 8th Int'l Conf. Distributed Computer Systems, IEEE, 1988.
       pdf/ps

Checkpointing, Logging, and Recovery

  Bhargava, B. and Lian, S., Independent checkpointing and concurrent rollback
       for recovery in distributed systems -- an optimistic approach,
       Proc. 7th Symp. Reliability in Dist. Sys., IEEE, 3-12, 1988.
       pdf/ps

  Borg, A., Baumbach, J., and Glazer, S., A message system supporting 
       fault tolerance, SOSP, 90-99, ACM, 1983.
       pdf/ps

  Koo, R. and Toueg, S., Checkpointing and rollback-recovery for distributed
       systems, Trans. Software Engineering, SE-13(1):23-31, IEEE, 1987.
       pdf/ps

  Leu, P. and Bhargava, B.,  A model for concurrent checkpointing and 
       recovery using transactions, Proc. 9th Intl. Conf. Distr. 
       Comp. Sys, 423-430, IEEE, 1989
       pdf/ps

  Strom, R.E. and Yemini, S., Optimisitic recover in distributed systems, 
       Trans. Computer Systems, 3(3):204-226, ACM, August 1985.
       pdf/ps

  Johnson, D.B and Zwaenepoel, Sender-based message logging, 
       Symp. Fault Tolerant Computing, 14-19, IEEE, 1987.
       pdf/ps

Distributed Shared Memory (DSM)

  Bolosky, W., Fitzgerald, R., and Scott, M, Simple But Effective 
       Techniques for NUMA Memory Management, Proceedings of the 12th SOSP, 
       Operating Systems Review, 23(5):19-31, ACM, December 1989. 
       pdf/ps

  Carriero, N., and Gelemter, D., Linda in context, CACM 32(4):444-458, 
       ACM, April 1989.
       pdf/ps

  Nitzberg, B. and Lo, V., Distributed shared memory: a survey of issues 
       and algorithms, Computer, 24(8):52-60, IEEE, August 1991.
       pdf/ps

  Stumm, M., Zhou, S., Algorithms implementing distributed shared memory,
       Computer 23(5):54-64, IEEE, May 1990.
       pdf/ps

Distributed File Systems (DFS)

  Boloskym W., et al, The Tiger video file server, 6th NOSSDAV, MSR-TR-96-09,
       Microsoft, April 1996.
       pdf/ps

  Sandberg, R, et al, Design and Implementation of the Sun Network File System,
       Summer USENIX Conference Proceedings, USENIX, 1985.
       pdf/ps

  Satyanarayanan, M., A Survey of Distributed File Systems, 
       Annual Review of Computer Science, Annual Reviews, 1989-1990, 
       73-104.
       pdf/ps

  Satyanarayanan, M., et al, Coda: a highly available file system for a 
       distributed workstation environment, Trans. Computers 39(4):447-459, 
       IEEE, April 1990.
       pdf/ps

Directory and Discovery Services

  Mockapetris, P.V. and Dunlap, K.J., Development of the Domain Name 
       System, Proc. SIGCOMM '88 Symp., 123-133, ACM, August 1988.
       pdf/ps

  Herlihy, M. and Warres, Michael P, A Tale of Two Directories: Implementing
       Distributed Shared Objects in Java, JAVA '99, 99-108, ACM, June 1999.
       pdf/ps

  Yeong, W., et al, RFC 1487: X.500 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,
       Network Working Group, July 1993.
       html

  Wahl, M.Howes, T., and Kille, S., RFC 2251: Lightweight Directory Access 
       Protocol (v3), Network Working Group, December 1997.
       html

Security, Protection, and Authentication

  Anderson, R.J., Why Cryptosystems Fail, CACM, 37(11), ACM, November 1994. 
       pdf/ps

  Lampson, B., et al, Authentication in Distributed Systems: 
       Theory and Practice, Proc. 13th SOSP, ACM, October 1991 
       pdf/ps

  Needham, R.N., Schroeder, M.D., Using Encryption for Authentication in
       Large Networks of Computers, CACM 21(12):993-999, Decmeber 1978.
       pdf/ps

  Steiner, J.G., Neuman, C., and Schiller, J.I., Kerberos: An Authentication
       Service for Open Network Systems, USENIX Winter Conference Proceedings,
       191-202, USENIX, February 1988. 
       pdf/ps

Systems

  Borg, A., Blau, W., and Graetsch, W., Fault Tolerance Under UNIX,
       Trans. Computer Systems 7(1):1-24, ACM, February 1989.
       pdf/ps

  Cheriton, D., The V Distributed System, CACM 31(3):314-333, ACM, March 1988. 
       pdf/ps

  Mullender, S.J., et al, Amoeba: a distributed operating system for the 1990s,
       Computer 23(5):44-53, IEEE, May 1990
       pdf/ps

  Pike, R., et al., Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Computing Systems 8(3):221-254,
       USENIX, Summer 1995.
       pdf/ps

  Saltzer, J.H., Reed, D.P., Clark, D.D, End-to-End Arguments in System Design, 
       Transactions on Computer Systems 2(4):277-288, ACM, November 1984.
       pdf/ps

  Walker, B., et al, The LOCUS Distributed Operating System, Proc. 9th SOSP, 
       46-69, October 1983.
       pdf/ps





 
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