Server Performance (network and host point of view)

• *V. Pai, P. Druschel, and W. Zwaenepoel, Flash: An efficient and portable Web server, Proceedings of the USENIX 1999 Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 1999 (html)
• Gaurav Banga, Jeff Mogul and Peter Druschel, A scalable and explicit event delivery mechanism for UNIX, in the Proceedings of the USENIX 1999 Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 1999. Winner of Outstanding Paper Award (ps)
• L. Qiu and V. N. Padmanabhan, Server-Centric View of Internet Performance: Analysis and Implications, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-78 September 2001 (pdf)
• *Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services, In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. (pdf)
• Erich M. Nahum, Marcel Rosu, Srinivasan Seshan, Jussara Almeida., The Effects of Wide-Area Conditions on WWW Server Performance ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Cambridge, MA, June 2001. (pdf)
• V. N. Padmanabhan and L. Qiu, The Content and Access Dynamics of a Busy Web Site: Findings and Implications Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000 (pdf)
• David Andersen, Deepak Bansal, Dorothy Curtis, Srinivasan Seshan and Hari Balakrishnan, System Support for Bandwidth Management and Content Adaptation in Internet Applications, Proc. USENIX OSDI Conf., San Diego, CA October 2000 (ps

Measuring Server Performance

• *G. Banga and P. Druschel, Measuring the capacity of a Web server, Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, Monterrey, CA, Dec, 1997 (html).
• Richard Liston and Ellen Zegura, Using a Proxy to Measure Client-Side Web Performance, WCW 2001i> (pdf)
• C. Shannon, D. Moore and K. Claffy, Characteristics of Fragmented IP Traffic on Internet Links, ACM SIGCOMM Measurement Workshop, November 2001. (pdf)
• Ram Rajamony and Mootaz Elnozahy, Measuring Client-Perceived Response Times on the WWW, Proceedings of the Third USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), March 2001, San Francisco. (html)

Clustering

• *V. Pai, M. Aron, G. Banga, M. Svendsen, P. Drushel, W. Zwaenepoel, E. Nahum, Locality-aware request distribution in cluster-based network services. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VIII). San Jose, California, October 1998 (ps)
• *Y. Saito, B. Bershad, and H. Levy, Manageability, availability, and performance in Porcupine: a highly scalable, cluster-based mail service , 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'99), Kiawah Island, SC, Dec, 1999 (ps)
• Yong Meng Teo and R. Ayani, Comparison of Load Balancing Strategies on Cluster-based Web Servers, (2001) Transactions of the Society for Modelling and Simulation, (pdf)
• Cherkasova L., DeSouza M. and Ponnekanti S. Performance Analysis of Scalable Web Hosting Service with FLEX: Two Case Studies (HPL-2000-28). Palo Alto, CA: Hewlett Packard Laboratories, February 2000. (pdf)

Other Performance Aspects

• *Stefan Savage, Sting: a TCP-based Network Measurement Tool, Proceedings of the 1999 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, pp. 71-79, Boulder, CO, October 1999. ( ps, pdf )
• *Stefan Savage, Andy Collins, Eric Hoffman, John Snell and Tom Anderson, The End-to-end Effects of Internet Path Selection Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGCOMM Conference, pp. 289-299, Cambridge, MA, September, 1999. ( ps, pdf )
• *Andy Myers, Peter Dinda, Hui Zhang, Performance Characteristics of Mirror Servers on the Internet, Proceedings of Infocom '99, New York, NY, March 1999, pp. 304-312 (ps)
• Anees Shaikh, Renu Tewari, and Mukesh Agrawal, On the effectiveness of DNS-based Server Selection, INFOCOM 2001 (pdf)
• M. Gritter and D. R. Cheriton. An Architecture for Content Routing Support in the Internet, 3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'01), March 2001, San Francisco, California. (ps.gz)

• Girish Chandranmenon and George Varghese, Reducing web latency using reference point caching, INFOCOM 2001 (ps)
• Michael Rabinovich and Hua Wang, DHTTP: An efficient and cache-friendly transfer protocol for web traffic, INFOCOM 2001. (pdf)
• Jaeyeon Jung, Emil Sit, Hari Balakrishnan and Robert Morris, DNS Performance and the Effectiveness of Caching, SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, San Francisco, CA, November 2001. (pdf)

Overlay Networks

• David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris, The Case for Resilient Overlay Networks, Proc. HotOS VIII, Elmau/Oberbayern, Germany, May 2001. (pdf)
• David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris, Resilient Overlay Networks, SOSP 2001, Banff, Canada, October 2001. (pdf)
• Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay G. Rao, Srinivasan Seshan and Hui Zhang, Enabling Conferencing Applications on the Internet using an Overlay Multicast Architecture, Proceedings of ACM Sigcomm, San Diego, CA, August 2001. (pdf)

Web Caching

• Edith Cohen and Haim Kaplan, Refreshment Policies for web content caches INFOCOM 2001 (ps)
• Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Nitin Sharma, Neal Cardwell, Molly Brown, Tashana Landray, Denise Pinnel, Anna Karlin, and Henry Levy, Organization-Based Analysis of Web-Object Sharing and Caching Proc. of the 2nd USENIX Conference on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), October 1999. (ps)

P2P

• *Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian An Investigation of Geographic Mapping Techniques for Internet Hosts, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Conf., San Diego, CA, September 2001. (pdf)
• *Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, Frans Kaashoek, Hari Balakrishnan, Chord: A Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Conf., San Diego, CA, September 2001. (pdf)
• *Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker, A Scalable Content-Addressable Network, ACM SIGCOMM, 2001. (pdf)
• Frank Dabek, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris, and Ion Stoica. Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS, SOSP 2001. (html)
• Ian Clarke, Askar Sanderberg, Brandon Wiley, and Theodore Hong, Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System, Proceedings of the Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability, July 25-26, Berkeley, CA, 2001 (html, ps )
• Ian Clarke, A Distributed Decentralized Information Storage and Retrieval System, unpublished report. (pdf)
• Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay G. Rao and Hui Zhang, A Case For End System Multicast, Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Santa Clara,CA, June 2000, pp 1-12. (ps)

Security

• *Eugene H. Spafford, The Internet worm incident, Technical Report CSD-TR-933, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, Sept. 1991. (ps)
• Eugene H. Spafford, The Internet worm incident: An Analysis, Technical Report CSD-TR-823, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, Dec. 8, 1988. (ps).
• M. Eichin and J. Rochlis, With microscope and tweezers: An analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988, IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, 1989. (ps )
• Technical summary of buffer overrun bugs and attacks.
• David Moore, Geoffrey Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Inferring Internet Denial of Service Activity, Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Security Symposium, Washington D.C., August 2001. (ps, pdf)
• Stefan Savage, David Wetherall, Anna Karlin and Tom Anderson, Network Support for IP Traceback, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 9(3):226-237, June 2001 (pdf)