CS 7270 Reading List

Server Selection and Anycasting

• (Jan 18) C. Partridge, T. Mendez and W. Milliken, Host anycasting service, RFC 1546.
• (Jan 18) D. Katabi and J. Wroclawski, A Scalable Framework for a Global IP-Anycast Service (GIA) Internet Draft.
• E. Zegura, M. Ammar, Z. Fei and S. Bhattacharjee, Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in a replicated web service, Submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
• A. Myers, P. Dinda and H. Zhang, Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'99.
• P. Francis, S. Jamin, V. Paxson, L. Zhang, D. Gryniewicz and Y. Jin, An architecture for a global internet host distance estimation service, Submitted to INFOCOM'99 (?). [could also go in Network Measurement category]

Caching

• J. Wang, A survey of web caching schemes for the Internet, Computer Communications Review, October 1999.
• L. Fan, P. Cao, J. Almeida and A. Broder, Summary cache: a scalable wide-area web cache sharing protocol, Proceedings of SIGCOMM'98.
• D. Wessels and K. Claffy, Internet cache protocol (ICP), version 2, RFC 2186.
• Barford, Bestavros, Bradley and Crovella, Changes in web client access patterns: characteristics and caching implications, WWW, 1999. [not about how caches work, but rather how well they can work, based on traffic patterns]
• A. Feldmann, R. Caceres, F. Douglis, G. Glass and M. Rabinovich, Performance of web proxy caching in heterogeneous bandwidth environments, Proceedings of Infocom'99.

Application-layer routing

• W. Adjie-Winoto, E. Schwartz, H. Balakrishnan and J. Lilley, The design and implementation of an intentional naming system, Proc. 17th SOSP, Kiawah Island, SC.
• A. Vahdat, M. Dahlin, T. Anderson, and A. Aggarwal, Active names: flexible location and transport of wide-area resources,, Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), October 1999.

Network monitoring

• D. Rubenstein, J. Kurose and D. Towsley, Detecting Shared Congestion of Flows Via End-to-end Measurement, Submitted to Sigmetrics'2000.
• S. Seshan, M. Stemm and R. Katz, SPAND: Shared Passive Network Performance Discovery, Proceedings of USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '97)
• S. Ratsnasmy and S. McCanne, Inference of multicast routing trees and bottleneck bandwidths using end-to-end measurements, Proceedings of INFOCOM'99.

Active services

• U. Legcdza, D. Wetherall and J. Guttag, Improving the performance of distributed applications using active networks, Proceedings of INFOCOM'98.
• Umass?
• Wash U?
• ASCC?