CS 7270 Resource List

Papers on How to Read Papers

• Hanson, Efficient reading of papers in science and technology, Brochure, 1989.
• A. Smith, The Task of the Referee, IEEE Computer, April 1990. [more about reviewing than reading]
• I. Parberry, A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science, First appeared in SIGACT News, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 92-109, 1989. [also more about reviewing than reading]

Sockets Information

• We will not be covering sockets programming in class, though feel free to post questions about the sockets interface to the news group. If you are unfamiliar with sockets programming, the following on-line tutorials will get you started.
• RPI Sockets Tutorial (strongly recommended)
• Jim Frost's BSD Sockets Primer (recommended; sockets by analogy to telephones)
• Berkeley UNIX System Calls and Interprocess Communication, L. Besaw, with revisions by M. Solomon (recommended)
• UNIX Socket FAQ

Multimedia Streaming

• Apostolopoulos, Tan and Wee, "Video Streaming: Concepts, Algorithms, and Systems," HP Technical Report, Sept. 2002
• Li, X., Ammar, M. H., Paul, S. "Video Multicast over the Internet," IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 13. No. 2, March/April 1999, pp46-60.
• Taehyun Kim, Mostafa Ammar, "A Comparison of Layering and Stream Replication Video Multicast Schemes," Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2001, June 2001.
• J. Salehi, Z. Zhang, J. Kurose, D. Towsley "Supporting Stored Video: Reducing Rate Variability and End-to-End Resource Requirements through Optimal Smoothing" IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (September 1998).
• S. Nelakuditi, R. Harinath, E. Kusmierek, Z.-L. Zhang, "Providing Smoother Quality Layered Video," Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2000.
• D. Saparilla, K. Ross, "Optimal Streaming of layered video," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2000.
• Taehyun Kim, Mostafa Ammar, ``Optimal Quality Adaptation for MPEG-4 Fine-Grained Scalable Video," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2003 (to appear).
• T. Kim Class Presentation"

Multicast Services

• Russell Clark and Ammar, Mostafa. " Providing Scalable Web Service Using Multicast Delivery " , Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Journal, Vol. 29, pp841-858, 1997. (Previous Version in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, Whistler, Canada, June 1995.)
• Almeroth, K., Ammar, M., Fei, Z., "Scalable Web Delivery Using Cyclic Best-Effort (UDP) Multicast," Proceedings of INFOCOM 98.
• Huadong Ma, Kang G. Shin "Multicast Video-on-Demand Services," ACM Computer Communication Review, vol. 32, no. 1, January, 2002
• Kevin Almeroth, Mostafa Ammar, "On the use of Multicast Delivery to Provide a Sclabale and INteractive Video-on-Demand Service," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, 1996.
• S. Viswanathan, T. Imielinski, Pyramid Broadcasting for Video on DEMAND SERVICE Proceedings of the SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference, 1995.
• Kien A. Hua and Simon Sheu, Skyscraper Broadcasting: A New Broadcasting Scheme for Metropolitan Video-on-Demand Proceedings of SIGCOMM 1997.

Peer-to-peer

• How Napster Worked.
• The Gnutella Protocol Specification v0.4
• Gnutella 2
• Biddle, England, Peinado, Willman, "The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution," 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, 2002
• I. Clarke, O. Sandberg, B. Wiley and T. Hong, Freenet: A distributed anonymous information storage and retrieval system, in Designing Privacy Enhancing Technologies: International Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability, LNCS 2009, ed. by H. Federrath. Springer: New York (2001).
• Stefan Saroiu, P. Krishna Gummadi, and Steven D. Gribble. "A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems," Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN'02), January 2002.
• Jacky Chu, Kevin Labonte, and Brian Neil Levine, "Availability and Locality Measurements of Peer-to-Peer File Systems" Proc. ITCom: Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks II Conferences July 2002 Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #4868.
• M Harren et al, "Complex Queries in DHT-based Peer-to-Peer Networks," 2nd IPTPS Workshop.
• I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Karger, M. Kaashoek, H. Balakrishnan, Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for Internet applications, Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm, August 2001.
• Ratnasamy, Francis, Handley, Karp, Shneker, "A Scalable COntent-Addressable Network," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Augiste 2001.
• Ion Stoica et al, "Internet Indirection Infrastructure," Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2002.
• Angelos Keromytis, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein. SOS: Secure Overlay Services Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '02, Pittsburgh, PA, August, 2002.
• The Coop Net Project

Overlay Networks

• Y. Chu, S. Rao and H. Zhang, A case for end-system multicast Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics, June 2000.
• C. Kommareddy, N. Shankar and S. Bhattacharjee, Finding close friends on the Internet Proceedings of ICNP'01.

Networked Games

• Li Zou, Mostafa Ammar, Christoph Diot, " An Evaluation of Grouping Techniques for State Dissemination in Netwokred Multi-User Games" Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, (MASCOTS'01), August 2001.

Content distribution networks

• A. Myers, P. Dinda and H. Zhang, Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'99.
• P. Rodriguez, A. Kirpal, and E. W. Biersack, Parallel-Access for Mirror Sites in the Internet, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'00.
• E. Zegura, M. Ammar, Z. Fei and S. Bhattacharjee, Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in a replicated web service, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
• B. Krishnamurthy, C. Wills and Y. Zhang, On the use and performance of content distribution networks, Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm Internet Measurement Workshop, 2001.
• Akamai.
• S. Seshan, M. Stemm and R. Katz, SPAND Infocom'00
• IDMaps, Infocom'99 paper
• IDMaps, Transactions on Networking paper

Wireless/ubicomp services

• Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, "Proactive Routing in Highly Partitioned Mobile Networks," Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Future Trends of Distributed Computing\ Systems.
• James Davis, Andy Fagg, and Brian Neil Levine, "Wearable Computers as Packet Transport Mechanisms in Highly Partitioned Ad-Hoc Networks", in Proc. International Symposium on Wearable Computers October 8, 2001.
• A. Snoeren and H. Balakrishnan, An End-to-End Approach to Host Mobility , ACM Mobicom 2000.