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CS739 Spring 2008: Reading List

    Distributed Operating Systems

  1. Survey : Distributed Operating Systems
    Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Robbert Van Renesse
    ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 17, Issue 4 (December 1985)
  2. Sprite vs. Amoeba : A Comparison of Two Distributed Systems: Amoeba and Sprite
    Fred Douglis, M. Frans Kaashoek, John K. Ousterhout, Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
    Computing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 353-384, December 1991.

    Networked File Systems

  3. NFS
  4. Coda : Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System
    James J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan
    13th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Asilomar, California, pp. 213-225. October 1991.
    • AFS Background : Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System
      Howard, J.H., Kazar, M.L., Menees, S.G., Nichols, D.A., Satyanarayanan, M., Sidebotham, R.N., and West, M.J.
      ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 1988, pp. 51-81.
  5. LBFS : A Low-Bandwidth Network File System
    Athicha Muthitacharoen, Benjie Chen (MIT), David Mazieres (NYU), SOSP'01

    Theory: Time and Order

  6. Time and Order

    Analysis of Distributed Systems

  7. Centera : Deconstructing Commodity Storage Clusters
    Haryadi Gunawi, Nitin Agrawal, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
    ISCA'05
  8. Group Presentation

    Programming Environments

  9. DSM: Towards Transparent and Efficient Software Distributed Shared Memory
    D.J. Scales and K. Gharachorloo
    16th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Saint Malo, France, October 1997, pp. 157-169.
  10. MapReduce : MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
    Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat
    OSDI'04
  11. Group Presentation

    Process Migration

  12. Group Presentation
  13. SpriteMigration : Transparent Process Migration: Design Alternatives and the Sprite Implementation
    Fred Douglis and John K. Ousterhout
    Software - Practice and Experience, Volume 21, Number 8, 1991, Pages 757-785.

    Specialized Distributed Services

  14. Group Presentation
  15. Porcupine: Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: A Highly Scalable Internet Mail Service
    Yasushi Saito, Brian Bershad, and Hank Levy
    17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec 1999, Kiawah Island Resort

    Cluster-Based Distributed File Systems ( Project Related)

  16. GoogleFS : The Google File System
    Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-Tak Leung
    SOSP'03

    Theory: Agreement

  17. Byzantine
  18. FailStop : Byzantine generals in action: Implementing fail-stop processors.
    Fred B. Schneider
    TOCS 2, 2 (May 1984), 145:154

    Recovery

  19. Microreboot : Microreboot—A Technique for Cheap Recovery
    George Candea, Shinichi Kawamoto, Yuichi Fujiki, Greg Friedman, and Armando Fox, Stanford University, OSDI'04

    P2P Systems

  20. CFS : Wide-Area Cooperative Storage with CFS
    Frank Dabek, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris (MIT), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley), SOSP'01
  21. Dynamo : Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store
    Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swami Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels
    Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Stevenson, WA, October 2007.
  22. Pangaea : Taming Aggressive Replication in the Pangaea Wide-Area File System
    Yasushi Saito, Christos Karamanolis, Magnus Karlsson, and Mallik Mahalingam, HP Labs, OSDI'02
  23. LOCKSS : Preserving Peer Replicas By Rate-Limited Sampled Voting
    Petros Maniatis, Mema Roussopoulos, TJ Giuli, David S. H. Rosenthal, Mary Baker, Yanto Muliadi
    SOSP'03
  24. SUNDR : Secure Untrusted Data Repository (SUNDR)
    Jinyuan Li, Maxwell Krohn, David Mazières, and Dennis Shasha, New York University, OSDI'04
  25. Speculator : Speculative execution in a distributed file system
    Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
    Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles (SOSP'05), pages 191 - 205.

Cluster-Based Distributed File Systems

  • Petal + Frangipani
  • Measurement : An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems
    Stefan Saroiu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy, (University of Washington), OSDI'02
    Slides

    Additional Papers

    1. Mistakes: Understanding and Dealing with Operator Mistakes in Internet Services
      Kiran Nagaraja, Fábio Oliveira, Ricardo Bianchini, Richard P. Martin, and Thu D. Nguyen, Rutgers University, OSDI'04
    2. Boxwood : Boxwood: Abstractions as the Foundation for Storage Infrastructure
      John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, and Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, OSDI'04
    3. Sensor : TAG: a Tiny AGgregation Service for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks.
      Samuel Madden, Michael Franklin, Joseph Hellerstein, Wei Hong.
      In Proceedings of OSDI, 2002.
    4. FUSE: Lightweight Guaranteed Distributed Failure Notification
      John Dunagan, Microsoft Research; , Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research; Dejan Kostic, Duke University; Marvin Theimer and Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research
      OSDI'04
    5. Pastiche: Making Backup Cheap and Easy
      Landon P. Cox, Christopher D. Murray, and Brian D. Noble, University of Michigan, OSDI'02
    6. FARSITE: Federated, Available, and Reliable Storage for an Incompletely Trusted Environment
      Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Miguel Castro, Gerald Cermak, Ronnie Chaiken, John R. Douceur, Jon Howell, Jacob R. Lorch, Marvin Theimer, and Roger P. Wattenhofer, Microsoft Research, OSDI'02
    7. Ivy: A Read/Write Peer-to-Peer File System
      Athicha Muthitacharoen, Robert Morris, Thomer M. Gil, and Benjie Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, OSDI'02
    8. Paxos Made Simple
      Leslie Lamport
      November 2001
    9. The Part-Time Parliament
      Leslie Lamport
      ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 16, No. 2, May 1998
    10. Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks
      Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann, Satish Kumar
      Mobile Computing and Networking, 1999.
  • xFS : Serverless Network File Systems
    Tom Anderson, Mike Dahlin, Jeanna Neefe, David Patterson, Drew Roselli, Randy Wang.
    SOSP 15, December 1995.
  • The LOCUS Distributed Operating System
    Bruce Walker, Gerald Popek, Robert English, Charles Kline, Greg Thiel,
    9th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, November 1983, pp. 49-70.
  • DEMOS/MP: The Development of a Distributed Operating System
    Barton P. Miller, David L. Presotto, Michael L. Powell,
    Software-Practice & Experience 17 4, April 1987, pp. 277-290.
  • Plan 9 from Bell Labs
    Rob Pike, David L. Presotto, Sean Dorward, Bob Flandrena, Ken Thompson, Howard Trickey, Phil Winterbottom,
    Computer Systems 8, 3, Summer 1995, pp. 221-254.
  • The ITC Distributed File System: Principles and Design
    M. Satyanarayanan, John H. Howard, David A. Nichols, Robert N. Sidebotham, Alfred Z. Spector, Michael J. West,
    10th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Orcas Island, Washington, pp. 35-50. December 1985.
  • Magp ie : Using Magpie for Request Extraction and Workload Modelling
    Paul Barham, Austin Donnelly, Rebecca Isaacs, and Richard Mortier, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, OSDI'04
  • River : Run-Time Adaptation in River
    Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
    Transactions on Computing Systems (TOCS), February, 2003, v. 21:1, pp. 36-86
  • Linda: The S/Net's Linda Kernel
    N. Carriero and D. Gelernter
    ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 4, 2, May 1986, pp. 110-129.
  • Survey : Process migration
    Dejan S. Milojicic and Fred Douglis and Yves Paindaveine and Richard Wheeler and Songnian Zhou
    ACM Comput. Surv. 32, 3, 2000.
  • Scalable, Distributed Data Structures for Internet Service Construction
    Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and David Culler , UC Berkeley
    OSDI 2000
  • Communication

  • Comparison

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