• Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, Frans Kaashoek, Hari Balakrishnan, "Chord: A peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications," Published in Proc. of HotOS VIII, 2001.
• Luis Felipe Cabrera, Michael B. Jones, Marvin Theimer, "Herald: Achieving a Global Event Notification Service, in Proc. of HotOS VIII, 2001.
• Stefan Saroiu, P. Krishna Gummadi, Steven D. Gribble, "A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems," in Proc. of Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002.
• Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker, "A Scalable Content-Addressable Network," in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2001.
• Ian Clarke, Oskar Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, Theodore W. Hong, "Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System," in Proc. of the ICSI Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability, Berkeley, CA, 2000.

• P. Druschel and A. Rowstron,  "Past: A large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility," in Proc. of the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), Schoss Elmau, Germany, May 2001.

• B. Zhou, D. A. Joseph, J. Kubiatowicz, "Tapestry: a fault tolerant wide area network infrastructure," SIGCOMM 2001 poster and UC Berkeley Tech. Report UCB/CSD-01-1141.

• Y. Chu, S. Rao, H. Zhang, "A Case For End System Multicast," in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS , Santa Clara,CA, June 2000.

• Y. Chu, S. Rao, S. Seshan, H. Zhang, "Enabling Conferencing Applications on the Internet Using an Overlay Multicast Architecture," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2001.

• D. Anderson, H. Balakrishnan, F. Kaashoek, R. Morris, "The case for reslient overlay networks," Proc. HotOS VIII, May 2001, http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/ron-hotos2001.html.

• The Gnutella Protocol, version 0.4, http://www.clip2.com/GnutellaProtocol04.pdf

• Napster. "The Technology Behind Napster,"

• J. Jannotti, D. K. Gifford, K. L. Johnson, M. F. Kaashoek, and J. W. O'Toole, Jr., "Overcast: Reliable Multicasting with an Overlay Network," in Proc. of OSDI'00.

• E. Zegura, M. Ammar, Z. Fei, and S. Bhattacharjee, "Application-Level Anycasting: a Server Selection Architecture and Use in a Replicated Web Service," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Aug. 2000.

• Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin and Lorrie Faith Cranor, "Publius: A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant, web publishing system". Proc. 9th USENIX Security Symposium, pp 59-72, August 2000. http://publius.cdt.org/publius.pdf

• L. Xiao, Z. Xu, and X. Zhang, "``Mutual anonymity protocols for hybrid peer-to-peer systems", Proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'2003), Providence, Rhode Island, May 19-22, 2003.

• James Aspnes, Zoe Diamadi, Gauri Shah, "Fault-tolerant Routing in Peer-to-peer Systems:, PODC 2002.

• Hari Balakrishnan, David Karger, and David Liben-Nowell, "Analysis of the Evolution of Peer-to-Peer Systems," PODC 2002.

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• 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03), 20-21 February 2003 - Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, CA, USA. The link is http://iptps03.cs.berkeley.edu/.

• 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '02), 7-8 March 2002 - MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA, USA.  The link is http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/.

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Advance topics on Distributed Systems in General

Synchronization

• Leslie Lamport, "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of events in a distributed system," Communication of the ACM, 21(7): 558-565, July 1978.

• E. Anceaume and L. Puaut, "Performance Evaluation of Clock Synchronization Algorithms," Tech report RR-3526, INRIA, Rennes, France, Oct. 1998.

• Biaz, S. and Welch, J. L., "Closed Form Bounds for Clock Synchronization Under Simple Uncertainty Assumptions," Information Processing Letters, to appear. pdf.

• Dolev, S. and Welch, J. L., "Self-Stabilizing Clock Synchronization in the Presence of Byzantine Faults," 2nd Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems, May 1995. pdf.

• Simons, B., Welch, J. L. and Lynch, N., "An Overview of Clock Synchronization," (pp. 84-96) in Simons, B. and Spector, A. (Eds.), Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 448, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990. pdf.
• James H. Anderson and Yong-Jik Kim, "Nonatomic Mutual Exclusion with Local Spinning," PODC 2002.
• James H. Anderson and Yong-Jik Kim, "An Improved Lower Bound for the Time Complexity of Mutual Exclusion," PODC 2001.
• Rishiyur S. Nikhil and Umakishore Ramachandran, "Garbage Collection of Timestamped Data in Stampede," PODC 2000.
• Hagit Attiya and Vita Bortnikov, "Adaptive and Efficient Mutual Exclusion," PODC 2000.
• Yehuda Afek, Gideon Stupp, and Dan Touitou, "Long-Lived and Adaptive Atomic Snap-Shot and Immediate Snapshot," PODC 2000.
• Anish Arora, Sandeep Kulkarni, and Murat Demirbas, "Resettable Vector Clocks," PODC 2000.

Consistency & Replication

• Leslie Lamport, "The weak Byzantine generals problem," Journal of the ACM, 30(3): 669-676, July 1983.
• Leslie Lamport, "Using time instead of timeout for fault-tolerant distributed systems," ACM Transactions on Programming Language and Systems, 6(2):254-280, April 1984.
• M. Ahamad and R. Kordale, "Scalable Consistency Protocols for Distributed Services," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 10, No. 9, pp. 888-903, Sept. 1999.
• Haifeng Yu and Amin Vahdat, "Minimal Replication Cost for Availability," PODC 2002.
• Svend Frolund and Rachid Guerraoui, "X-Ability: A Theory of Replication," PODC 2000.
• L. Alvisi and K. Marzullo, "Message Logging: Pessimistic, Optimistic, Causal, and Optimal," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 149-159, Feb. 1998.
• H. Attiya and J. Welch, "Sequential Consistency versus Linearizability," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 12, no. 2, pp.99-122, May 1994.
• K. Birman, "A response to Cheriton and Skeen's Criticism of Causal and Totally Ordered Communication," Operating Systems Review, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 11-21, Jan. 1994.
• T. Joseph and K. Birman, "Exploiting Virtual Synchrony in Distributed Systems," 11th ACm Symp. Operating Systems Principles, 1987.
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Fault Tolerance

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Security

• Freier et al., The SSL protocol version 3.0, Internet Draft, November 1996.
• D. Song, D. Wagner, and X. Tian, "Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and SSH Timing Attacks,"  in 10th USENIX Security Symposium, 2001. [pdf].
• J. Steiner, B. Neuman, and J. Schiller. "Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems." In Proceedings of the Winter 1988 Usenix Conference, February, 1988.
• Emil Sit and Robert Morris, Security Considerations for Peer-to-Peer Distributed Hash Tables, 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), March 2002, Abstract, PostScript, PDF.
• Michael J. Freedman and Robert Morris, Tarzan: A Peer-to-Peer Anonymizing Network Layer, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 9), November 2002. PDF.
• Wobber, Abadi, Burrows, and Lampson, Authentication in the Taos operating system, SOSP 1993.
• Kevin Fu, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Mazières. "Fast and secure distributed read-only file system," in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 20(1):1-24, February 2002 (A version appeared in the Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation [PDF, BibTeX entry ]
• R.M. Needham and M.D. Schroeder, "Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers", Communications of the ACM, Vol.21, No.12, December, 1978, pp.993-999. [ .pdf ]
• S. Bellovin, "Security Problems in the TCP/IP Protocol Suite" Computer Communication Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, April 1989, pp. 32-254. [.html]
• Russ Cox, Eric Grosse, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, Sean Quinlan, "Security in Plan 9,", Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium, 2002. (PDF)

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