Additional Readings

Lecture 1- Intro to Distributed Computing

• A Note on Distributed Computing - Waldo et al

Lecture 2 - Client/Server Applications & Network Applications

Middleware

• Software Engineering Institute's page on Middleware
• Another web page on Middleware******
• Yet another web page on Middleware*****

Client-Server Architectures

• Overview of Client-Server Software Architectures from SEI
• Two-tier Software Architectures
• Three-tier Software Architectures

Scalable Server Design******

• Matt Welsh, David Culler, Eric Brewer. SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services (2001) 
• Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel, Jeffrey C. Mogul. Resource containers: A new facility for resource management in server systems (1999) 
• Gaurav Banga Scalable kernel performance for Internet servers under realistic loads (1998)  
• Yasushi Saito, Brian Bershad, Hank Levy. Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: A Highly Scalable, Cluster-based Mail Service, 1999

Network Programming Using Sockets

• Java Network Programming Tutorial
• See UNIX network programming tutorials in Useful Links

Lecture 4 - RPC & RMI

• JAVA RMI
  • SUN's Java RMI home page
  • Java RMI documentation and tutorials
  • Java Tutorial RMI trail
• CORBA
  • OMG Home page with lots of CORBA links
  • Doug Schmidt's C++ Report Columns on CORBA
  • Inprise Visibroker download page
  • Java Tutorial IDL trail
  • SUN's Java IDL Documentation
  • Java RMI-IIOP Documentation
• SOAP
  
  • Wikipedia page on SOAP
    

The Java Object Model*****

•     Wollrath, Riggs, and Waldo, A Distributed Object Model for the Java Systems,  Proceedings of the USENIX 1996 Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 1996.

Lecture 5 - Message-oriented Middleware

• Wikipedia page on Message-oriented Middleware

Lecture 6 - Code Migration******

• Milojicic et al, Process Migration, ACM Computing Surveys, Sept 2000.
• Wallach et al, Extensible Security Architectures for Java, Proc. of 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1997.
  

Lecture 7 - Naming*****

• Yeo et al, A taxonomy of issues in name systems design and implementation, ACM SIGOPS Operating System Review, 1993.
  
• Hari Balakrishnan et al, A layered naming architecture for the internet,  Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2004.

Lecture 12 - P2P Systems

Survey Article

• Dejan Milojicic et al, "Peer-to-Peer Computing", 2002.
  

DHTs

• Chord
• Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Liben-Nowell, David R. Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, Hari Balakrishnan, Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications. To Appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• See also related articles at Chord web site
• Tapestry ************
  
• B. Zhou, A. Joseph, J. Kubiatowicz, "Tapestry: A Resilient Global Scale Overlay for Service Deployment", IEEE JSAC, Jan 2004.
• Ben Y. Zhao, John Kubiatowicz and Anthony Joseph  "Tapestry: An Infrastructure for Fault-tolerant Wide-area Location and Routing," UCB Tech. Report UCB/CSD-01-1141, [pdf ]
• See also related articles at  Tapestry web site

• PASTRY **********
  
• A. Rowstron and P. Druschel, "Pastry: Scalable, distributed object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems".  IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware), Heidelberg, Germany, pages 329-350, November, 2001.
• See also related articles at PASTRY web site
• CAN **********
  
• Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker A Scalable Content-Addressable Network In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2001.