CS 5523 Operating Systems
Resources - Spring 2001

System Models: organization (client-server, WWW, proxies, peer processes, agents), resource management and performance
- The World Wide Web and HTTP:
  - The World Wide Web Consortion (W3C) Homepage
    http://www.w3.org
    W3C is the main standards group for the World Wide web. Their homepage has links to all working group activies.
  - The World Wide Web Consortion (W3C) HTTP Working Group Page
    http://www.w3.org/Protocols
    This page has all of the latest developments on the HTTP protocol and links to the standards and historical documents.
  - HTTP Made Really Easy
    James Marshall
    http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/
    A simple tutorial for HTTP 1.0.
  - Hypertext Transfer Protocol --- HTTP/1.0 (RFC 1945)
    T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding and H. Frystyk
    http://www.w3.org/Protocols
    An informational RFC describing the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
  - Improving HTTP Latency
    Padmanabhan, V. N. and J. Mogul,
    Computer Networks and ISDN Systems v.28, pp. 25-35, Dec. 1995.
    Slightly Revised Version in Proceedings of the 2nd International WWW Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web, Oct. 1994. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/mogul/HTTPLatency.html
    This is the classic paper making the case for HTTP 1.1.
- Wireless and Mobile Computing:
  - The WAP Forum Homepage
    http://www.wapforum.org
    This is the homepage for the industry consortium that is developing standardized APIs for wireless applications.
  - The WAP Technical Specifications Page
    http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm
    Summary page of the WAP Forum standards.
- Timing and Clocks:
  - Computer Time Synchronization
    Michael Lombardi
    Time and Frequency Division, Mational Institute of Standards and Technology
    http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/pdf/computertime.pdf
    Clearly-written description about PC clocks and time-keeping.
Networking and Internetworking: protocols and routing
- Important organizations and network standards groups:
  - The Internet Society
    http://www.isoc.org/
    The Internet Society is a non-profit, non-governmental, international, professional membership organization. The work of the Internet Society focuses on four "pillars:" standards, public policy, education and training, and membership. The most well-known subgroup under its umbrella is IETF.
  - The International Engineering Task Force
    http://www.ietf.org/
    The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The IETF in fact develops the preliminary RFCs that later become standards for much of the new networking technology.
  - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
    http://www.icann.org/
    Created in 1998 to oversee the assignment of names an numbers on the Internet
  - The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
    http://www.itu.int/
    ITU, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is an international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services.
  - The European Forum for Electronic Business
    http://www.eema.org/
    EEMA's goal is to improve communications between businesses in Europe who wish to trade and communicate electronically.
Name Services: DNS, directory and discovery services
- Domain Name System (DNS):
  - IETF DNS Extensions Working Group
    http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dnsext-charter.html
    Homepage of recent standards activity for DNS within IETF
  - RFC 1034: Domain Names Concepts and Facilities
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt?number=1034
    Original RFC giving a readable overview of DNS.
  - RFC 1035: Internet Domains Implementation and Specification
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt?number=1035
    Original RFC specifying DNS implementation details.
- Directory Services:
  - X.500 Homepage
  - Understanding LDAP and X.500
    David Goodman, Lotus Development and Colin Robbins, NEXOR
    http://www.nexor.com/index4.htm A current description of evolution of LDAP and the relevant RFCs
  - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3)
    M. Wahl, T. Howes and S. Kille
    IETF RFC: 2251
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2251.txt?number=2251
- Discovery Services:
  - Whitepapers on Jini
    http://www.sun.com/jini/whitepapers/
Operating System Support: Basic OS services, protection, processes and threads, synchronization
Distributed Objects: Remote invocation and objects, RPC, events and notifications
- Remote Invocation and Java:
  - The Java Remote Invocation
    http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/guide/rmi
  - The JAVA RMI Specification
    http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/spec/rmiTOC.html
  - Getting Started Using RMI
    http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/getstart.doc.html
  - Java RMI Homepage
    http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/rmi/
  - Java Homepage
    http://java.sun.com
Distributed File Systems: requirements for distributed file systems, NFS, Andrew
- Andrew:
  - Andrew II Homepage
    http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/ANDREWII/AndrewII.html
  - AFS Reference Page
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr/shadow/www/afs.html
- NFS:
  - NFS Version 4 Working Group Page http://www.nfsv4.org/
  - WebNFS
    http://www.sun.com/software/webnfs/
- Recent Developments:
  - Microsoft's Farsite (Federated, Available, and Reliable Storage for an Incompletely Trusted Environment) Homepage
    ttp://www.research.microsoft.com/sn/Farsite/
  - Feasibility of a Serverless Distributed File System Deployed on an Existing Set of Desktop PCSs
    W. J. Bolosky, J. R. Douceur, D. Ely and M. THeimer
    ACM Sigmetrics 2000
    http://www.research.microsoft.com/sn/Farsite/Sigmetrics2000.pdf
Security: cryptographic algorithms, public key encryption and digital signatures, hybrid protocols

Last revision: April 14, 2001 at 6:50 am

CS 5523 Operating Systems Resources - Spring 2001

CS 5523 Operating Systems
Resources - Spring 2001