Seminar on Web Servers and Proxy Caching (2 units. Enrollment code: 64618)
Monday 11:50-12:50pm. CS Conference room
We will focus on Web servers and related system issues.
Candidate papers to be studied are listed below and will be
updated. You may also provide us other interesting papers.
Schedule
Oct 4. Organizational meeting. Paper assignment.
Oct 11. Ben Smith, Anurag Acharya, Tao Yang, Huican Zhu,
Caching Equivalent and Partial Results for Dynamic Web Content,
To appear in Proceedings of 1999 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems. HTML ,
PS file ,
PDF file .
Compressed Slides (gzip)
in the MS powerpoint format ,
or the 4-in-1 PS format
.
Oct 25 (Sezgin Sucu).
Efficient Algorithms for Predicting Requests to Web Servers
Edith Cohen (AT&T Labs--Research), Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T
Labs--Research), Jennifer Rexford (AT&T Labs - Research).
INFOCOM'99.
Click here to get Paper and slides
Nov 8 (Greg Johnson).
Slides
"Hierarchical Cache Consistency in a WAN", J. Yin, L. Alvisi, M. Dahlin, C. Lin To appear: The 1999
USENIX Symp osium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS99), October 1999.
Nov 29 (Muhammad Hamid Mukhtar)
Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet
Andy Myers (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Dinda (Carnegie Mellon University),
Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University).
Infocom'99.
Paper in the PS file
The MultiSpace: an Evolutionary Platform for Infrastructural Services,
by Steven D. Gribble, Matt Welsh, Eric A. Brewer,
and David Culler. To appear, Proceedings of the 1999 Usenix Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA,
June 1999.
Plus a talk "Using Java to Make Servers Scream",
Matt Welsh. Presented at the ACM JavaGrande'99 Conference, San Francisco, California,
June 12, 1999. (HTML)
Available from here
Accessing Multiple Mirror Sites in Parallel: Using Tornado Codes to Speed Up Downloads
John Byers (Boston University), Michael Luby (International Computer Science
Insititute), Michael Mitzenmacher (Compaq Systems Research Center)
INFOCOM'99.
"Web Prefetching Between Low-Bandwidth Clients and Proxies: Potential and
Performance"
Pei Cao, Li Fan, and Quinn Jacobson, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
SIGMETRICS'99.
Implementing Lottery Scheduling: Matching the
Specializations in Traditional
Schedulers
David Petrou,
Carnegie Mellon
University; John W.
Milford, NERSC;
Garth A. Gibson,
Carnegie Mellon
University. in USENIX'99 (Technical Conference)
Some other papers from WWW8 that might be of interest ( One paper may be too short
for a 1-hour presentation. You can present two).
"Web Caching with Consistent Hashing",
David Karger, Tom Leighton, Danny Lewin, Alex Sherman, WWW8
"Annotations for Streaming Video on the Web: System Design and Usage
Studies",
David Bargeron, Anoop Gupta, Jonathan Grudin, Elizabeth Sanocki, WWW8.
RaDaR: A Scalable Architecture for a Global Web Hosting Service
- Michael Rabinovich, Amit Aggarwal AT&T
Web Content Adaptation to Improve Server Overload Behavior
- Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Nina Bhatti HP Labs
Mirror, Mirror, on the Web: A Study of Host Pairs with Replicated Content
- Krishna Bharat, Andrei Z. Broder DEC SRC
Adding Support for Dynamic and Focused Search with Fetuccino
- Israel Ben-Shaul, Michael Herscovici, Michal Jacovi, Yoelle S. Maarek,
Dan Pelleg, Menachem Shtalhaim, Vladimir Soroka, Sigalit Ur