| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| R1 | Worse is better | |
| R2 | The architecture of complexity |
Read Simon paper. Simon, Herbert. "The Architecture of Complexity." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106, no. 6 (1962): 467-482. Instructions (PDF) |
| R3 | Therac-25 |
Read Therac-25 paper. Leveson, Nancy, and Clark Turner. "An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents." Computer 26, no. 7 (1993): 18-41. |
| R4 | UNIX file system |
Read UNIX paper, sections III and IV. Ritchie, Dennis, and Ken Thompson. "The UNIX Time-Sharing System." Bell System Technical Journal 57, no. 6, part 2 (1978): 1905-1930. |
| R5 | X window system |
Read X Window System paper. Scheifler, Robert, and Jim Gettys. "The X Window System." ACM Transactions on Graphics 5, no. 2 (1986): 79-109. |
| R6 | Eraser |
Read Eraser paper. Savage, Stefan, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patrick Sobalvarro, and Thomas Anderson. "Eraser: A Dynamic Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs." ACM Transaction on Computer Systems 15, no. 4 (1997): 391-411. Instructions (PDF) |
| R7 | More UNIX |
Read UNIX paper. Ritchie, Dennis, and Ken Thompson. "The UNIX Time-Sharing System." Bell System Technical Journal 57, no. 6, part 2 (1978): 1905-1930. |
| R8 | MapReduce |
Read MapReduce paper. Dean, Jeffrey, and Sanjay Ghemawat. "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters." Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Francisco, CA, December 2004. Instructions (PDF) |
| R9 | Ethernet |
Read Ethernet paper. Metcalfe, Robert, and David Boggs. "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks." Communications of the ACM 19, no. 7 (1976): 395-404. Instructions (PDF) |
| R10 | End-to-end arguments |
Read End-to-End paper. Saltzer, J. H., D. P. Reed, and D. D. Clark. "End-to-End Arguments in System Design." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2, no. 4 (1984): 277-288. Instructions (PDF) |
| R11 | Internet routing |
Read Wide-Area Routing paper. Balakrishnan, Hari. "An Introduction to Wide-Area Internet Routing." 6.033 case study, MIT, January 2009. (PDF) (Courtesy of Hari Balakrishnan. Used with permission.) Instructions (PDF) |
| R12 | NFS protocol |
Read section 4.5 of the textbook, Case Study: The Network File System (NFS). Instructions (PDF) |
| R13 | NATs |
Read Anatomy paper. Huston, Geoff. "Anatomy: A Look Inside Network Address Translators." The Internet Protocol Journal 7, no. 3 (2004): 2-32. Instructions (PDF) |
| R14 | Congestion control |
Read Misbehaving Receiver paper. Savage, Stefan, Neal Cardwell, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson. "TCP Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver." ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 29, no. 5 (1999): 71-78. Instructions (PDF) |
| R15 | Durability |
Read RAID paper. Patterson, David, Garth Gibson, and Randy Katz. "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)." Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference (1998): 109-116. Instructions (PDF) |
| R16 | Unison |
Read Unison paper. Jim, Trevor, Benjamin Pierce, and Jerome Vouillon. "How to Build a File Synchronizer." Unpublished paper, 2002. Instructions (PDF) |
| R17 | LFS |
Read LFS paper. Rosenblum, Mendel, and John Ousterhout. "The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 10, no. 1 (1992): 26-52. Instructions (PDF) |
| R18 | System R |
Read System R paper. Gray, Jim, et al. "The Recovery Manager of the System R Database Manager." Computing Surveys 13, no. 2 (1981): 223-242. Instructions (PDF) |
| R19 | ObjectStore |
Read ObjectStore paper. Lamb, Charles, Gordon Landis, Jack Orenstein, and Dan Weinreb. "The ObjectStore Database System." Communications of the ACM 34, no. 10 (1991): 50-63. |
| R20 | Porcupine |
Read Porcupine paper. Saito, Yasushi, Brian Bershad, and Henry Levy. "Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: A Highly Scalable, Cluster-Based Mail Service." Operating Systems Review 34, no. 5 (1999): 1-15. |
| R21 | Buffer overrun attacks |
Read Buffer Overrun paper. Pincus, Jonathan, and Brandon Baker. "Beyond Stack Smashing: Recent Advances in Exploiting Buffer Overruns." IEEE Security and Privacy 2, no. 4 (2004): 20-27. Instructions (PDF) |
| R22 | Why do cryptosystems fail? |
Read Cryptosystems paper. Anderson, Ross. "Why Cryptosystems Fail." Proceedings of the 1993 ACM Conference in Computer and Communications Security (1993): 215-227. Instructions (PDF) |
| R23 | Tracking Witty |
Read Witty paper. Kumar, Abishek, Vern Paxson, and Nicholas Weaver. "Exploiting Underlying Structure for Detailed Reconstruction of an Internet-scale Event." Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (2005): 351-364. Instructions (PDF) |
| R24 | Trusting trust |
Read Trusting Trust paper. Thompson, Ken. "Reflections on Trusting Trust." Communications of the ACM 27, no. 8 (1984): 761-763. Instructions (PDF) |
| R25 | Design project 2 presentations | |
| R26 | Hints for system design |
Read Computer System Design paper. Lampson, Butler. "Hints for Computer System Design." Operating Systems Review 17, no. 5 (1983): 33-48. Instructions (PDF) |
