ECE 6102: Spring 2009

Dependable Distributed Systems

List of Papers for Discussion and/or Presentation

Group Communication

• Feb. 4: "Totem: A Fault-Tolerant Multicast Group Communication System," Moser, Melliar-Smith, Agarwal, Budhia, Lingley-Papadopoulos, Communications of the ACM, April 1996.

Peer-to-Peer Systems

• Feb. 18: "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications," Stoica, et al., IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Feb. 2003.

• Feb. 23: "The Effect of Replica Placement on Routing Robustness in Distributed Hash Tables," Harvesf and Blough, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2006.

• Feb. 25: "Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location and Routing for Large-scale Peer-to-peer Systems," Rowstron and Druschel, Proc. of the International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, 2001.

Distributed Object Systems

• March 11: "A Fault Tolerance Framework for CORBA," Moser, Melliar-Smith, and Narasimhan, Proc. of the 29th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1999.

Distributed Storage Systems

• March 9: "Byzantine Quorum Systems," Malkhi and Reiter, Distributed Computing, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1998.

• March 9: "Dynamic Byzantine Quorum Systems," Alvisi, et al., Proc. DSN 2000.

• March 25: "How to Share a Secret," Shamir, Communications of the ACM, Nov. 1979.

• March 25: "An Approach for Fault Tolerant and Secure Data Storage in Collaborative Work Environments," Subbiah and Blough, Proceedings of the Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability, 2005.

Software Diversity

• Apr. 1: "Monopoly Considered Harmful," D. Geer, IEEE Security & Privacy, Nov.-Dec. 2003, pp. 14,17.

• Apr. 1: "Monocultures are Hard to Find in Practice," D. Aucsmith, IEEE Security & Privacy, Nov.-Dec. 2003, pp. 15-16.

• Apr. 1: "Addressing the Monoculture," G. Goth, IEEE Security & Privacy, Nov.-Dec. 2003, pp. 8-10.

• Apr. 1: "No Clear Answers on Monoculture Issues," J. Whittaker, IEEE Security & Privacy, Nov.-Dec. 2003, pp. 18-19.

• Apr. 6: "Building Diverse Computer Systems," Forrest, Somayaji, and Ackley, Proc. of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS).

• Apr. 8: "On Designing Dependable Services with Diverse Off-the-Shelf SQL Servers," Gashi, Popov, Stankovic, Strigini, in Architecting Dependable Systems, Springer-Verlag, 2004.

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