Research Papers Reading List

Papers will most likely be presented in pairs based on their current order (1 and 2 one day, 3 and 4 one day, 5 and 6 another day).  I will draft the final schedule based on who signs up for what.

Scheduling

  1. "Isolation with Flexibility: A Resource Management Framework for Central Servers", David G. Sullivan and Margo I. Seltzer, 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 337-350.
  2. "Efficiently Scheduling X Clients", Keith Packard, FREENIX Track, 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 175-186.
  3. "Borrowed-Virtual-Time (BVT) Scheduling: Supporting Latency-Sensitive Threads in a General-Purpose Scheduler", Kenneth J. Duda and David R. Cheriton, Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1999, pp. 261-276
  4. "Connection Scheduling in Web Servers", Mark E. Crovella, Robert Frangioso, and Mor Harchol-Balter, 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 1999, pp. 243-254.

Virtual Memory Related

  1. "Performing Replacement in Modem Pools", Yannis Smaragdakis and Paul Wilson, 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 277-291.
  2. "Reducing Startup Latency in Web and Desktop Applications", Dennis Lee, Jean-Loup Baer, Brian Bershad, and Tom Anderson, 3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium, 1999, pp. 165-174.

File Systems

  1. "The Design and Implementation of a DCD Device Driver for UNIX," Tycho Nightingale, Yiming Hu, and Qing Yang, 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 295-307.
  2. "Journaling Versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems", Margo I. Seltzer, Gregory R. Granger, M. Kirk McKusick, Keith A. Smith, Craig A. N. Soules, and Christopher A. Stein, 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 71-84.
  3. "LinLogFS - A Log-Structured Filesystem For Linux", Christian Czezatke and M. Anton Ertl, FREENIX Track, 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 77-88.
  4. "A Comparison of File System Workloads", Drew Roselli, Jacob R. Lorch, and Thomas E. Anderson, 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 41-54.
  5. "Single Instance Storage in Windows 2000", William J. Bolosky, Scott Corbin, David Goebel, and John R. Douceur, 4th USENIX Windows Systems Symposium, 2000, pp. 13-24.
  6. "Secondary Storage Management for Web Proxies", Evangelos P. Markatos, Manolis G.H. Katevenis, Dionisis Pnevmatikatos, and Michail Flouris, 2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, 1999, pp. 93-104.

Security

  1. "A Role Based Access Control Model and Reference Implementation within a Corporate Intranet," David F. Ferraiolo, John F. Barkley and D. Richard Kuhn, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, volume 2, number 1, 1999, pp. 34-64.