CS262B

Paper Summaries

Here are the paper summaries that I wrote for the on-going Spring 2004 CS262b (Advanced Topics in Computer Systems).

• Summary 1 (1/22/2004): Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems
• Summary 2 (1/25/2004): Extensibility, Safety and Performance in the SPIN Operating System
• Summary 3 (1/25/2004): Extensible Kernels are leading OS Research Astray
• Summary 4 (1/28/2004): A Case for NOW (Networks of Workstations)
• Summary 5 (2/1/2004): Serverless Network File Systems
• Summary 6 (2/1/2004): Scalable, Distributed Data Structures for Internet Service Construction
• Summary 7 (2/4/2004): Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System
• Summary 8 (2/4/2004): The Google File System
• Summary 9 (2/10/2002): Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System
• Summary 10 (2/11/2004): Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services
• Summary 11 (2/17/2004): Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Processing
• Summary 12 (2/18/2004): Lessons from Giant-Scale Services
• Summary 13 (2/23/2004): The ObjectStore Database System
• Summary 14 (2/23/2004): Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil
• Summary 15 (2/25/2004): Transaction Management in the R* Distributed Database Management System
• Summary 16 (3/1/2004): Transactional Client-Server Cache Consistency: Alternatives and Performance
• Summary 17 (3/4/2004): Flexible Update propagation for Weakly Consistent Replication
• Summary 18 (3/8/2004): Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System
• Summary 19 (3/10/2004): Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Summary 20 (3/15/2004): Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of a Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Workload
• Summary 21 (3/17/2004): Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications
• Summary 22 (3/17/2004): Pastry: Scalable, decentralized object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems
• Summary 23 (3/29/2004): Making Gnutella-like P2P Systems Scalable
• Summary 24 (3/31/2004): The Impact of DHT Routing Geometry on REsilience and Proximity
• Summary 25 (4/6/2004): Secure Routing for Structured Peer-to-peer Overlay Networks
• Summary 26 (4/7/2004): Pond: the Oceanstore Prototype
• Summary 27 (4/12/2004): Querying the Internet with PIER
• Summary 28 (4/14/2004): Mariposa: a Wide-area Distributed Database System
• Summary 29 (4/18/2004): MACEDON: Methodology for Automatically Creating, Evaluating, and Designing Overlay Networks