Seminar on Systems Design and Implementation (SDI)

Winter Quarter 2002

Thursdays, 12noon-1pm, CS Conference Room (Engineering I, room 2114).
NO enrollment code.

Schedule

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic	Links
1/17	Srinivasan Jagannathan	Pricing - revenue centered approach
1/24	Todd Bryan	Pricing - resource allocation	more, pdf1, pdf2, ps.gz
1/31	Kamil Sarac	Multicast Monitoring: Supporting a Robust Multicast Service in the Network
2/7	Mathias Kölsch	IEEE 1394 (FireWire): Specs and Operation	basics, Teener 1394, Teener 1394 a+b, Xilinx
2/14	Kai Shen	Replication, Load-balancing, and QoS-aware Resource Management for Cluster-based Network Services	Neptune
2/21	no seminar	lunch with Adrian Perrig instead
2/28	Martin Swany	Integrating dynamic information from the Network Weather Service into the Grid Information Service infrastructure.	NWS, papers
3/7	no seminar	lunch with Matt Welsh instead
3/14
3/21

Relevant Conferences

Paper and Topic suggestions

Please do not feel limited to this list. You can also make a suggestion of what you would like to present, like some research of yours or what you did for your internship etc.

New

Network Security
Network support for IP traceback, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking June 2001
Hash-based IP traceback, SIGCOMM 2001
On the effectiveness of route-based packet filtering for distributed DoS attach prevention in Power-Law internets, SIGCOMM 2001
Topology aggregation for directed graphs, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Feb 2001
Hop-by-hop multicast routing protocol, SIGCOMM 2001
Finding close friends on the internet, ICNP 2001,
Evaluation of a novel two-step server selection metric, ICNP 2001
Responder anonymity and anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing, ICNP 2001
IDMaps, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Oct 2001
Gothic: a group access control architecture for secure multicast and anycast, INFOCOM 2002
SSH from a user's point of view
why ssh2 is better than ssh1, the different modes of authentication, also safe server setup, tunneling (for X11 and other applications)
IEEE 1394 FireWire:
overview, specs, protocol, connectivity, IP over FireWire, drivers, future
Citeseer, or:
Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the OS level
What is DRM? How will Microsoft's lonely and mostly unnoticed advance and bonding with the media content producing industry affect the future of computing?
(See U.S. Patent No. 6,330,670, this story at ZDNet, or network-level approaches like Occam from Cisco.)
Banking is Essential, Banks are not. The Future of Financial Intermediation in the Age of the Internet
Hanno Beck
Second Berlin Internet Economics Workshop, pdf
Optimization in Electronic Markets: Examples in Combinatorial Auctions
Stan van Hoesel, Rudolf Mueller
Second Berlin Internet Economics Workshop, pdf
A Framework for Analysing Strategies of Internet Service Providers
Erik Wierstra, Gabriele Kulenkampff, Hans Schaffers
Second Berlin Internet Economics Workshop, pdf
Effects of Pricing on Internet User Behavior
Jorn Altmann, Bjrn Rupp, Pravin Varaiya
Second Berlin Internet Economics Workshop, pdf
Pricing and Cost Recovery for Internet Services: Practical Review, Classification, and Application of Relevant Models
Burkhard Stiller, Peter Reichl, Simon Leinen
Second Berlin Internet Economics Workshop, pdf
U.S Bandwidth Price Trends in the 1990s
Douglas A. Galbi, FCC, pdf

Miscellaneous

Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeno JVM
Matthew Arnold, Stephen Fink, David Grove, Michael Hind, Peter F. Sweeney; IBM Watson & Rutgers
OOPSLA 2000; let me know if you find it online
If you ever thought a JVM is simply an interpreter: read this. Paper has lots of systems design considerations. Extensible system for online feedback-directed optimization.
Polynomial and Adaptive Long-lived (2k-1)-Renaming
H. Attiya and A. Fouren
DISC 2000. (Best student paper) ps.gz, DISC 2000.
pretty theoretical paper about unique names for processes in distributed systems
ETI Resource Distributor: Guaranteed Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Multimedia Systems
Miche Baker-Harvey, Equator Technologies, Inc.
OSDI 99

Traditional OS, Java OS

Journaling Versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems
Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University; Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University; M. Kirk McKusick, Author & Consultant; Keith A. Smith, Harvard University; Craig A. N. Soules, Carnegie Mellon University; Christopher A. Stein, Harvard University
Usenix 00
Application Isolation in the Java Virtual Machine
Grzegorz Czajkowski; Sun Microsystems
OOPSLA 2000; ACM (subscription required); let me know if you find it online
Paper along the lines of last year's presentation (Techniques for the Design of Java Operating Systems) - this one uses replication of static fields for isolation. Implementation of two systems: one bytecode modifier, one runtime adaption (KVM for PalmOS).
Borrowed-Virtual-Time (BVT) Scheduling: Supporting Latency-sensitive Threads in a General-purpose Scheduler.
K. J. Duda, D. R. Cheriton.
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1999. ps
Self-Paging in the Nemesis Operating System
Steven M. Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
OSDI 99

Web and Networking

Analyzing Market-based Resource Allocation Strategies for the Computational Grid
Rich Wolski and James S. Plank and John Brevik and Todd Bryan
pdf (26 pages), general description
Market-based Proportional Resource Sharing for Clusters
Brent N. Chun, David E. Culler
pdf (19 pages), background information
Spawn: A Distributed Computational Economy
C. A. Waldspurger and T. Hogg and B. Huberman and J. O. Kephart and S. Stornetta
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, pp. 103-117, 1992, ps.gz
TCP and UDP Performance over a Wireless LAN and
Internet Protocol Performance over Networks with Wireless Links
George Xylomenos and George C. Polyzos
TCP&UDP paper, IP paper
Dynamic Host Configuration for Managing Mobility Between Public and Private Networks
Allen Miu, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; and Paramvir Bahl, Microsoft Research
Usits 2001

Multicast

Overcast: Reliable Multicasting with an Overlay Network John Jannotti, David K. Gifford, Kirk L. Johnson, M. Frans Kaashoek, and James W. O'Toole, Jr., Cisco Systems OSDI 2000
ALMI: An Application Level Multicast Infrastructure Dimitrios Pendarakis, Tellium Optical Network Systems; Sherlia Shi, Washington University in St. Louis; Dinesh Verma, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; and Marcel Waldvogel, Washington University in St. Louis
Usits 2001

Hardware Performance

Efficient Performance Prediction for Modern Microprocessors,
David Ofelt, John Hennessy, Stanford University
SIGMETRICS 00
Quantifying the Energy Consumption of a Pocket Computer and a Java Virtual Machine,
Jason Flinn, Carnegie Mellon University, Godmar Back, University of Utah, Jennifer Anderson, Keith Farkas, Compaq's Western Research Lab., Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado
SIGMETRICS 00

Mathias Kölsch