CS 395T: Web Operating Systems

Most of these papers are available on line. I will make the rest available.

Internet Basics (Not covered in class)

• D. Clark "The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols" SIGCOMM88 Computer Communication Review Vol. 19, No. 4 Aug 1988 pp 106-114.
• C. Hendrick "Introduction to the Internet Protocols" 1987.
• Uri Raz's collection of tcp/ip resources
• RFC 1883 (IP Version 6)
• The Case for IPv6
• V. Paxon "End-to-end Routing Behavior in the Internet" ACM SIGCOMM96 Aug 96.
• Matthew Mathis, Jeffrey Semke, Jamshid Mahdavi, and Teunis Ott, "The Macroscopic Behavior of the Congestion Avoidance Algorithm",Computer Communications Review, volume 27, number 3, July 1997.
• RFC 793 (TCP)
• Jacobson, V."Congestion avoidance and control" (SIGCOMM '88 Symposium: Communications Architectures and Protocols, Stanford, CA, USA, 16-19 Aug. 1988). Computer Communication Review, Aug. 1988, vol.18, (no.4):314-29.
• Observing TCP Dynamics in Real Networks Mogul
• P. Mockapetris and K. Dunlap "Development of the Domain Name System" Proc. SIGCOMM 88 Computer Communications Review Vol 18 No 4 Aug. 1988 pp. 123-133.
• Dynamic DNS: rfc 2136 and rfc 2137
• Jeff Mogul "The Case for Persistent-Connection HTTP" SIGCOMM95 p299-313
• V. Padmanabhan and J. Mogul "Improving HTTP Latency"
• Performance Interactions Between P-HTTP and TCP Implementations
• WebTP: A Receiver-Driven Web Transport Protocol Rajarshi Gupta, Mike Chen, Steven McCanne and Jean Walrand Submitted to Infocom'99 (and the Masters Thesis version of it).
• B. Callaghan "WebNFS: The File System for the World Wide Web" Sun White Paper May 1996.
• SPAND: Shared Passive Network Performance Discovery Srinivasan Seshan, Mark Stemm, and Randy H. Katz In Proc 1st Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '97) Monterey, CA December 1997
• TCP Behavior of a Busy Internet Server: Analysis and Improvements
Compressed Postscript, 483KB Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan, Mark Stemm, and Randy H. Katz In Proc IEEE Infocom '98 San Francisco, CA March 1998
• On Improving the Fairness of TCP Congestion Avoidance T. Henderson, E. Sahouria, S. McCanne, and R. Katz Proc. IEEE Globecom '98, Sydney, Australia, November 1998.
• TCP Fast Start: A Technique for Speeding Up Web Transfers Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Randy H. Katz Proc. IEEE Globecom '98 Internet Mini-Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 1998. As required by the Globecom folks, this paper is has been formatted for A4 paper. It will not look pretty on US Letter paper, but will print okay.
• Gaurav Banga and Jeff Mogul, "Scalable Kernel Performance for Internet Servers Under Realistic Loads." Proc. USENIX 1998 Technical Conference, June 1998
• The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Randy H. Katz Proceedings of 3rd ACM/IEEE MobiCom, Budapest, Hungary, September 1997.
• H. Eriksson "MBone: The Multicast Backbone" CACM Aug1994 v37 pp 54--60
• Internet topology
• GA Tech Transit-stub project
• another real-time networking paper? Ask Harrick. or perhaps uiuc "vosaic"

System model

• A. Vahdat, P. Eastham, C. Yoshikawa, E. Belani, T. Anderson, D. Culler, and M. Dahlin,``WebOS: Operating System Services For Wide Area Applications''. March, 1997. Technical Report UCB CSD-97-938.
• "Active Naming: Programmable Location and Transport of Wide-area resources" A. Vahdat, T. Anderson, M. Dahlin
• The legion vision of a worldwide virtual computer Grimshaw et al. CACM Jan 1 1997
• M. Lewis, A. Grimshaw, "The Core Legion Object Model."  Fifth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, August 1996.
• I. Foster, C. Kesselman, "Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit."  International Journal of Supercomputer Applications.
• M. van Steen, P. Homburg, and A.S. Tanenbaum. "The Architectural Design of Globe: A Wide-Area Distributed System." Technical Report IR-422, March 1997.
• Ulana Legcdza, David Wetherall, and John Guttag, Improving the Performance of Distributed Applications Using Active Networks, Submitted.
• Switchware, PLAN, and SANE (Penn)
• CANES: composable active network elemeents (GaTech)
• ANTS (MIT) ANTS: A Toolkit for Building and Dynamically Deploying Network Protocols
• Netscript (Columbia)
• Genesis (Columbia)
• Active Services
• Smart Packets (BBN)
• Protocol boosters (Penn, Bellcore)
• Ninja project (Berkeley)
• Infospheres (Cal Tech)
• A Framework for Active Distributed Services by Ramesh Govindan, Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Deborah Estrin
• Dartmouth agents (kotz)
• MASH (berkeley)
• Network Directory Service (NDS)
• J. Hartman, U. Manber, L. Peterson, and T. Proebsting, "Liquid Software: A New Paradigm for Networked Systems."  Technical Report 96-11, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona (June 1996)
• Henri Casanova and Jack Dongarra. NetSolve: A Network Server for Solving Computational Science Problems
• B. Christiansen, P. Cappello, M. F. Ionescu, M. O. Neary, K. E. Schauser, and D. Wu Javelin: Internet-Based Parallel Computing Using Java. 1997 ACM Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation, June 1997.
• Lucent Corp., An Overview of Plan 10. Inferno Summary, and Inferno Overview.
• JavaSpaces, Javasoft.
• Draves et al., "Operating System Directions for the Next Millennium"
• D. Tennenhouse and D. Wetherall "Towards an Active Network Architecture" Computer Communication Review.

Transcoding

• Benefits of Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP Compressed Postscript, 148KB Srinivasan Seshan, Mark Stemm, and Randy H. Katz In Proc Global Internet Mini Conference at Globecom 98, Sydney, Australia Nov 1998
• Adapting to Network and Client Variation Using Active Proxies: Lessons and Perspectives. Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Yatin Chawathe, Eric A. Brewer IEEE Personal Communications (invited submission, September 1998).
• Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services. Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Yatin Chawathe, Eric A. Brewer Proc. 1997 Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-16), St-Malo, France, Oct. 1997.
• Reducing WWW Latency and Bandwidth Requirements by Real-Time Distillation Armando Fox and Eric A. Brewer Proc. Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, France, May 1996.
• Potential benefits of delta encoding and data compression for HTTP Jeffrey C. Mogul, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, and Balachander Krishnamurthy DEC WRL Research Report 97/4, July 1997

Naming

Question: How should we translate from virtual names to physical addresses? How do we find objects or services or users in the Internet if they migrate?
• P. Mockapetris and K. Dunlap "Development of the Domain Name System" Proc. SIGCOMM 88 Computer Communications Review Vol 18 No 4 Aug. 1988 pp. 123-133.
• Ron Daniel and Michael Mealling. Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System. RFC 2168 June 1997.
• M. van Steen, F.J. Hauck, P. Homburg, and A.S. Tanenbaum. "Locating Objects in Wide-Area Systems." To appear in IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1998.
• Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet by Andy Myers, Peter Dinda, and Hui Zhang
• On Estimating End-to-End Network Path Properties Mark Allman , Vern Paxson SIGCOMM99
• "Interpreting Stale Load Information", M. Dahlin. University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences Technical Report TR98-20. October 1998.ps pdf
• Fei, Z., Bhattacharjee, S., Zegura, E. W., Ammar, M. H., ``A Novel Server Selection Technique for Improving the Response Time of a Replicated Service,'' Proceedings of INFOCOM 98, March/April 1998, San Francisco, CA.
• Selection algorithms for replicated web serversMehmet Sayal, Peter Scheuermann, Pradek Vingralek, Workshop on Internet Server Performance 1998.
• CISCO distributed director
• J. D. Guyton and M. F. Schwartz, "Locating Nearby Copies of Replicated Internet Servers", In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, 1995.
• A Passive System for Server Selection within Mirrored Resource Environments Using AS Path Length Heuristics
• C. Yoshikawa, B. Chun, P. Eastham, A. Vahdat, T. Anderson, and D. Culler. ``Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services.'' Proc. of the 1997 USENIX Conference, Jan. 1997.
• Butler Lampson. Designing a Global Name Service. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 1-10, August 1986.
• Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval. The Whois++ Directory Service Testbed.
• M.D. Schroeder, A.D. Birrell, and R.M. Needham. Experience with Grapevine: The Growth of a Distributed System. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Feb 1984), pp. 3-23
• B. Clifford Neuman. The Prospero File System: A global file system based on the Virtual System Model. Computing Systems, 5(4):407-432, Fall 1992.
• Steven Breitstein. Inferno Namespaces.
• Edward Slottow. Engineering a Global Resolution Service, Nov. 1996.
• C. Partridge, T. Mendez, and W. Milliken. Host Anycasting Service http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc1546.html
• A Directory Service for Configuring High-Performance Distributed Computations. S. Fitzgerald, I. Foster, C. Kesselman, G. von Laszewski, W. Smith, and S. Tuecke, Proc. 6th IEEE Symp. on High-Performance Distributed Computing 1997.

Communication, Persistence, and Caching

Question: How do we coordinate the activities of a geographically distributed application? What if the application needs to update persistent state?
 

Workloads

• Adaptive Web Caching: Towards a New Global Caching Architecture Scott Michel, Khoi Nguyen, Adam Rosenstein and Lixia Zhang
• NetCache Architecture and Deployment Danzig. Web Cache Workshop 1998. Includes useful rules of thumb for sizing cache systems.
• Manley, S., Courage., M., Seltzer., M A Self-Scaling and Self-Configuring Benchmark for Web Servers
• The Measured Access Characteristics of World-Wide-Web Client Proxy Servers. B.M. Duska, D. Marwood, M.J. Feeley. In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, December 1997.
• System Design Issues for Internet Middleware Services: Deductions from a Large Client Trace  Steven D. Gribble and Eric A. Brewer, Proceedngs of the 1997 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Monterey, CA, December 1997
• BU OCEANS group
• Web Caching and Zipf-like Distributions: Evidence and Implications, Lee Breslau, Pei Cao, Li Fan, Graham Phillips and Scott Shenker.
• M. Arlitt and C. Williamson Web Server Workload Characterization: The Search for Invariants, 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Philadelphia, PA, May 23-26, 1996.
• Manley, S., Seltzer., M., Web Facts and Fantasy Proceedings of the 1997 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Monterey, CA, December 1997.
• M. Spasojevic and M. Satyanarayanan. A Usage Profile and Evaluation of a Wide-Area Distributed File System. Proceedings of the USENIX Winter Technical Conference, Jan. 1994.

Updates and Consistency

• "Volume Leases for Consistency in Large-Scale Systems", J. Yin, L. Alvisi, M. Dahlin, and C. Lin. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Special Issue on Web Technologies. 1999.
• J. Yin, L. Alvisi, M. Dahlin, and C. Lin "Using leases to support cache consistency in large-scale systems" ICDCS98.
• Maintaining Strong Cache Consistency in the World-Wide Web Chengjie Liu and Pei Cao,  ICDCS'97.
• Gwertzman, J., Seltzer, M. "World-Wide Web Cache Consistency" Proceedings of the 1996 Usenix Technical Conference, San Diego, CA January 1996.
• A.M. Kermarrec, I. Kuz, M. van Steen, and A.S. Tanenbaum. "A Framework for Consistent, Replicated Web Objects." Proc. 18th Int'l. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, Amsterdam, May 1998.
• Cache Consistency in the HTTP 1.1 Proposed Standard Adam Dingle
• J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan "Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System" ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. Feb. 1992, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 3-25.
• D. Terry and M. Theimer and K. Petersen and A. Demers and M. Spreitzer and C. Hauser Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System".
• The Dangers of Replication and a Solution Gray, Helland, O'Neil, and Shasha
• Wingman: A Replication Service for Microsoft Access and Visual Basic Brad Hammond
• Lotus Notes (any good paper?)
• Commercial multi-master servers: IBM, Oracle
• Session Guarantees for Weakly Consistent Replicated Data Douglas B. Terry, Alan J. Demers, Karin Petersen, Mike J. Spreitzer, Marvin M. Theimer, and Brent B. Welch
• Lazy Consistency Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC '97), Santa Barbara, CA, August 1997 Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov
• Isolation-Only Transaction for Mobile Computing Lu, Q., Satyanarayanan, M. Operating Systems Review Apr. 1994, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 81-87
• Transactional Client-Server Cache Consistency: Alternatives and Performance Michael J. Franklin, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny ; ACM Transactions on Database Systems
• Constraint Management in Loosely Coupled Distributed Databases S. Chawathe , H. Garcia-Molina , J. Widom (Technical report. Detailed version of papers appearing in ICDE 1996 and Data Engg. Bull. 17(2), June 1994 )
• Protocols for Integrity Constraint Checking in Federated Databases P. Grefen , J. Widom (Technical report; shortened proceedings version appears in coopis.ps ) 1994
• H.T. Kung and J. Robinson, "On optimistic methods for concurrency control" ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 6(2), June 1981.
• LOTEC: A Simple DSM Consistency Protocol for Nested Object Transactions Peter Graham (U. of Manitoba) and Yahong Sui (U. of Manitoba) PODC1999
• Timed Consistency for Shared Distributed Objects Francisco J. Torres-Rojas (Georgia Tech), Mustaque Ahamad (Georgia Tech) and Michel Raynal (IRISA) PODC1999
• Peter Danzig, Dante DeLucia, and Katia Obraczka. Massively Replicating Services in Wide-Area Internetworks. University of Southern California.
• Brian M. Oki, Manfred Pflug, Alex Siegel, and Dale Skeen. The Information Bus - An Architecture for Extensible Distributed Systems. SOSP 1993, 58-68. 590s, Nov. 7:
• H. Eriksson "MBone: The Multicast Backbone" CACM Aug1994 v37 pp 54--60
Classic memory system consistency and coherency papers
• Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial, S.V. Adve and K. Gharachorloo, Rice University ECE Technical Report 9512 and Western Research Laboratory Research Report 95/7, September 1995. A version of this paper appears in IEEE Computer, December 1996, 66-76.
• Commit-Reconcile & Fences (CRF): A New Memory Model for Architects and Compiler Writers, Xiaowei Shen, Arvind, and Larry Rudolph, December 1998, To appear in proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May 1999, Atlanta, Georgia..
• Computation-Centric Memory Models, by Matteo Frigo and Victor Luchangco, In the 10th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, June 28-July 2, 1998.
• Lochangco's dissertation
• Multiprocessors Should Support Simple Memory Consistency Models, Mark D. Hill, IEEE Computer, August 1998.

Cache hierarchy

• Brian Davison's Web-Caching Bibliography
• Anawat Chankhunthod, Peter B. Danzig, Chuck Neerdaels, Michael F. Schwartz and Kurt J. Worrell. "A Hierarchical Internet Object Cache." USENIX '96.
• Floyd, Jacobson, Zhang, "Adaptive Web Caching", Cache Workshop '97. And here is Van Jacobson's talk "How to kill the Internet"
• Ramón Cáceres, Fred Douglis, Anja Feldmann, Gideon Glass, and Michael Rabinovich. Web proxy caching: the devil is in the details. In Workshop on Internet Server Performance (WISP'98), Madison, WI, June 1998.
• Tewari, Dahlin, Vin, Kay, Beyond Hierarchies: Design Principles for Distributed Caching on the Internet
• "Coordinated Placement and Replacement for Large-Scale Distributed Caches" M. Korupolu and M. Dahlin. November 1998. In review.
• D. Wessels, K. Claffy, "Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2". May, 1997.
• R. Wang and T. Anderson. xFS: A Wide Area Mass Storage File System. Proc. Fourth Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (October 1993), pp. 71-78.
• P. Homburg, M. van Steen, and A.S. Tanenbaum. "Unifying Internet Services Using Distributed Shared Objects." Technical Report IR-409, October 1996.
• Internet Draft "A design for caching in HTTP 1.1"
• S. Glassman "A Caching Relay for the World Wide Web" Proceedings WWW94
• A. Luotonen and K. Altis "World-Wide Web Proxies" Proceedings WWW94 April 94.

Prefetching/push caching

• Improving End-to-End Performance of the Web Using Server Volumes and Proxy Filters Improving End-to-End Performance of the Web Using Server Volumes and Proxy Filters Edith Cohen, Balachander Krishnamurthy, and Jennifer Rexford
• Using Predictive Prefetching to Improve World Wide Web Latency (Compressed Postscript, 95 KB) Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Jeffrey C. Mogul ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, July 1996.
• An Analysis of Geographical Push-Caching" Seltzer et al
• T.J. Griffioen and R. Appleton , Automatic Prefetching in a WAN, In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems October, 1993, pp 8-12, also released as TR CS243-93
• Kroeger, D. Long and J. Mogul. Exploring the Bounds of Web Latency Reduction from Caching and Prefetching
• Web Prefetching Between Low-Bandwidth Clients and Proxies: Potential and PerformanceLi Fan, Quinn Jacobson, Pei Cao and Wei Lin. To appear in SIGMETRICS'99

Other information

• WWW Cache Related Links

Reliability/Availability

Question: How do we create a service that is available to everyone in the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
• J. Gray "A Census of Tandem System Availability Between 1985 and 1990" IEEE Transactions on Reliability" v39 n4 October 1990 pp. 409--418.
• V. Paxon "End-to-end Routing Behavior in the Internet" ACM SIGCOMM96 Aug 96.
• T. Haerder and A. Reuter "Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery" ACM Computing Surveys 15(4):287--318 1983.

Resource Allocation

Question: How do we allocate resources among competing needs, whether those be CPU cycles to run agents for end users or geographically distributed Internet services? How do we find idle resources if they exist?
• Banga, Druschel, and Mogul "Resource containers"
• Grzegorz Czajkowski and Thorsten von Eicken. "JRes: A Resource Accounting Interface for Java." Proceedings of 1998 ACM OOPSLA Conference. October 1998.
• Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility Noble, B., Satyanarayanan, M., Narayanan, D., Tilton, J.E., Flinn, J., Walker, K. Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles October 1997
• Implementation and Performance of Integrated Application-Controlled Caching, Pre fetching and Disk Scheduling , Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Anna Karlin and Kai Li. ACM Transaction on Computer Systems (TOCS), November 1996.
• R. Tewari, H.M. Vin, A. Dan, and D. Sitaram, "Resource-based Caching for Web Servers, In Proceedings of ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 1998 (MMCN'98), San Jose, Pages 191-204, January 1998
• Carl A. Waldspurger and William E. Weihl. Stride Scheduling: Deterministic Proportional-Share Resource Mangement, Technical Memo MIT/LCS/TM-528, June 1995. Another link to the paper
• Z. Qin and W. Wang and F. Wu and T. Lo and P. Aoki "Mariposa: A Wide-Area Distributed Database System" VLDB Journal 5 1 (Jan 9`1996) pp 48--63.
• "On Market Mechanisms as a Software Technique" , Paul Tucker and Fran Berman, UCSD Technical Report #CS96-513.
• Workshop: Internet Economics Distribution
• Rich Wolski. Dynamically Forecasting Network Performance Using the Network Weather Service.
• B. Clifford Neuman and Santosh Rao. The Prospero Resource Manager: A Scalable Framework for Processor Allocation in Distributed Systems. Concurrency: Practice and Experience, 6(4): 339-355, June 1994.
• Application-Level Scheduling on Distributed Heterogeneous Networks Fran Berman, Richard Wolski, Silvia Figueira, Jennifer Schopf, Gary Shao, Supercomputing'96, November 1996.
• Is Service Priority Useful in Networks? SIGMETRICS98 Sandeep Bajaj, Lee Breslau, Scott Shenker, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
• D. Engler and F. Kaashoek and J. O'Toole "Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management" SOSP95 Dec. 1995

End-station issues/Scalable servers

• Jeffrey C. Mogul. Network Behavior of a Busy Web Server and its Clients. Research Report 95/5, Digital Equipmen Corporation Western Research Laboratory, October, 1995.
• Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server, Gaurav Banga and Peter Druschel, Rice University Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Oct 1997
• On Performance of Caching Proxies Alex Rousskov
• C. Maltzahn and K. Richardson and D. Grunwald Performance Issues of Enterprise Level Web Proxies 1997 SIGMETRICS

Security

Authentication

• Prudent Engineering Practice for Cryptographic Protocols, Martin Abadi and Roger Needham.
• M. Burrows and M. Abadi and R. Needham A Logic of Authentication" ACM Transactions on Computer Systems v8 n1 Feb 1990 pp. 18--36.
• Butler Lampson and Martin Abadi and Michael Burrows and Edward Wobber. Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practise.  SOSP-91, full tech report.
• Ronald Rivest and Butler Lampson, SDSI - A Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure, 1996.
• E. Belani, A. Vahdat, T. Anderson, and M. Dahlin. The CRISIS Wide Area Security Architecture. 1998 USENIX Security Symposium. Jan 1998.
• J. Steiner and C. Neuman and J. Schiller "Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems" USENIX Winter Conference Feb 9-12 1988 pp. 191--202.
• S M Bellovin and M Merritt, Limitations of the Kerberos Authentication System.
• A. Freier and P. Karlton and P. Kocher "Secure Socket Layer" March 96.
• S. Glassman and M. Manasse and M. Abadi and P. Gauthier and P. Sobalvarro "The Millicent Protocol for Inexpensive Electronic Commerce" WWW4 Conference Dec 1995.
• M. Satyanarayanan. "Integrating security in a large distributed system." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 7(3):247-280, August 1989.
• D. Denning and P. Denning "Data Security" Computing Surveys v11 n3 Sept 1979 pp. 227--249.
• Cryptography
• How large should keys be? RFC2541 (DNS keys) Rivest memo

Access control and sandboxing

• D. Wagner and I. Goldberg and R. Thomas "A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications: Confining the Wily Hacker" 1996 USENIX Security Symposium. To Appear.
• Extensible Security Architecture for Java. Dan S. Wallach, Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, and Edward W. Felten (Princeton University).
• Secure Computing With Java: Now and the Future
• R. Wahbe, S. Lucco, T. Anderson and S. Graham. ``Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation.'' Proc. Fourteenth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, December 1993, pp. 203-216.
• Sirer et al., Kimera: A Java System Architecture.
• Sun White Paper "Java Language Overview" 1996.
• "HotJava: The Security Story". May 1995.
• F. Yellin "Low Level Security in Java" 1996.
• D. Hopwood "Security Bugs in Java" Web page -- descriptions and links to other sites.
• D. Dean and E. Felten and D. Wallach "Java Security: From HotJava to Netscape and Beyond" 1996.
 

Workloads and infrastructure

Question: How do we make sure what we build works before it gets deployed? How do we deploy what we build?
• Dec. 8: L. Brakmo and L. Peterson. "Experiences with Network Simulation." SIGMETRICS '96 (June 1996).
• Dec. 10: James Hu, Sumedh Mungee, and Douglas Schmidt, "Techniques for Developing and Measuring High-performance Web Servers over ATM Networks", Washington University technical report #WUCS-97-09, submitted to INFOCOM '98, August, 1997.
• Manley, S., Courage., M., Seltzer., M A Self-Scaling and Self-Configuring Benchmark for Web Servers
• Webstone
• SPECweb96
• Internet Traffic Archive