6.853 Handouts

Electronic versions are linked where available; see the course secretary for paper copies.

• Course Staff & Grading Policy (.ps.Z)
• Questionnaire for 6.853 Students (.ps.Z)
• 6.853 at a Glance (.ps.Z)
• Where to Look for Papers (.ps.Z)
• Lecture Notes (.ps.Z)
• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 2/14 (Assignment) (.ps.Z)

• How to Referee a Research Paper (Dave Gifford, February 1982)
• Rules for Referees
  Bernard K. Forscher, reprinted from SCIENCE, Vol. 150, pp 319-321, October 1965.
• Hints for Computer System Design
  Butler W. Lampson, ACM Operating Systems Review, Vol. 17, No. 5, Special Issue 1983.

• A New Solution to Coherence Problems in Multicache Systems
  Lucien M. Censier and Paul Feautrier, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-27, No. 12, December 1978.
• Firefly: A Multiprocessor Workstation
  Charles P. Thacker, Lawrence C. Stewart, Edwin H. Satterthwaite, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 37, No. 8, August 1988.
• The MIT Alewife Machine: Architecture and Performance (.ps.Z)
  Anant Agarwal and others, December 1994. Abbreviated version to appear in ISCA '95.
• The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5 (.ps.Z)
  Charles E. Leiserson and others, March 1994. Earlier version appears in 1992 ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, pp. 272-285, June 1992, San Diego, CA.
• A Case for NOW (Networks of Workstations) (6.853: Team Project (.ps.Z)
• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 2/28 (.ps.Z)

• The UNIX Time-Sharing System
  D. M. Ritchie and K. Thomson, Communications of the ACM, 17(7):365-375, July 1974.
• Mach: A New Kernel Foundation For UNIX Development
  M. Accetta, R. Baron, W. Bolosky, D. Golub, R. Rashid, A. Tevanian, and M. Young, Proceedings of the 1986 Summer USENIX onference, pp. 93-112, Atlanta GA, 1986.
• Designing Plan 9
  R. Pike, D. Presotto, K. Thompson, and H. Trickey, Dr. Dobbs Journal, pp. 49-60, January 1991.
• A Grand Tour of Windows NT: Portable 32-bit Multiprocessing Comes to Windows
  H. Custer, Microsoft Systems Journal, pp. 17-31, July-August 1992.
• The Spring nucelus: A microkernel for objects
  G. Hamilton and P. Kougiouris, Proceedings of the 1993 Summer USENIX Conference, pp. 147-159, Cincinnati OH, June 1993.
• An Overview of the NetWare Operating System
  D. Major, G. Minshall, and K. Powell, Proceedings of the 1994 Winter USENIX Conference, pp. 355-372, San Francisco CA, January 1994.

• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 3/7 (.ps.Z)

• Reliable Communication in the Presence of Failures
  K. P. Birman and T. A. Joseph, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 5(1):47-76, February 1987.
• Understanding the Limitations of Casually and Totally Ordered Communication (.ps)
  B. Liskov, M. Day, and L. Shrira, in Distributed Object Management, ed. T. Ozsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez. pp79-91, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.

• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 3/14 (.ps.Z)

• The Smalltalk-80 System
  The Xerox Learning Research Group, BYTE, August 1981.
• Introducing OLE 2.0, Part I: Windows Objects and the Component Object Model
  Kraig Brockschmidt, Microsoft Systems Journal, August 1993.
• The Component Object Model: Technical Overview
  Microsoft, White Paper, October 1994.
• A Close-Up of OpenDoc
  Kurt Piersol, reprint from BYTE, March 1994.
• The System Object Model (SOM) and the Component Object Model (COM): A comparison of technologies from a developer's perspective
  IBM Corp. Object Technology Products Group, White Paper, May 1994.
• Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language
  John K. Ousterhout, 1990 Winter USENIX Conference Proceedings.
• EMail With A Mind of Its Own: The Safe-Tcl Language for Enabled Mail
  Nathaniel S. Borenstein, submitted to ULPAA '94.

• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 3/21

• The Zebra Striped Network File System
  John H. Hartman and John K. Ousterhout, Proceedings of SIGOPS '93.
• Cooperative Caching: Using Remote Client Memory to Improve File System Performance(.ps)
  Michael D. Dahlin and others, Proceedings of the First Symposioum on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI 1994).
• Distributed Parallel Data Storage Systems: A Scalable Approach to High Speed Image Servers
  Brian Tierney and others, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 94, San Fransisco, CA.
• File System Logging Versus Clustering: A Performance Comparison (.ps.gz)
  Margo Seltzer and others, Proceedings of the 1995 USENIX Technical Conference.
• Streaming RAID - A Disk Array Management System for Video Files
  Fouad A. Tobagi and others, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 93, San Fransisco, CA.

• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 4/4

• The Design Philoshophy of the DARPA Internet Procotols
  David D. Clark, Proceedings of the 1988 SIGCOMM Symposium, pp 106-114, Stanford, CA, August 1988.
• IP Next Generation Overview
  Robert M. Hinden, Internet Draft, October 1994.
• A Survey of Modern High-Performance Switching Techniques
  Hamid Ahmadi and Wolfgand E. Denzel, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Vol. 7, No. 7, September 1989.
• ATM Concepts, Architectures, and Protocols
  Ronald J. Vetter
  ATM Network: Goals and Challenges
  B. G. Kim and P. Wang
  Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 2, February 1995.
• An Analysis of TCP Processing Overhead
  David D. Clark, Van Jacobson, John Romkey, and Howard Salwen, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 6, 1989.
• Experiences with a High-Speed Network Adaptor: A Software Perspective
  Peter Druschel, Larry L. Peterson, and Bruce Davie, Proceedings of SIGCOMM '94, pp 2-13, London, UK, August 1994.

• The ARPA Internet Protocol
  Jonathon B. Postel, Carl A. Sunshine and Danny Cohen, Computer Networks (now known as Computer Networks and ISDN Systems) Vol 5, pp261-271, North-Holland 1981.
• Chapter 12: Reliable Stream Transport Service (TCP)
  Douglas E. Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP (Volume I), Prentice Hall 1991.

• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 4/11

• Congestion Avoidance and Control
  Van Jacobson, SIGCOMM '88, pp 314-329, 1988.
• Making Greed Work in Networks: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Switch Service Disciplines
  Scott Shenker, SIGCOMM '94, pp47-57, London, UK, August 1994.
• Architecture Design for Regulating and Scheduling User's Traffic in ATM Networks
  H. Jonathon Chao, SIGCOMM '92, pp 77-87, Baltimore, MD, August 1992.
• Credit-Based Flow Control for ATM Networks: Credit Update Protocol, Adaptive Credit Allocation, and Statistical Muliplexing
  H. T. Kung, Trevor Blackwell and Alan Chapman, SIGCOMM '94, pp 101-114, London, UK, August 1994.

• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 4/25

• An Architecture for Wide-Area Multicast Routing
  Stephen Deering and others, SIGCOMM '94, pp 126-135, London, UK, August 1994.
• MBONE: The Multicast Backbone
  Hans Eriksson, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 8, pp 54-60, August 1994.
• Nonblocking Copy Networks for Multicast Packet Switching
  Tony T.Lee, IEEE JSAC, Vol. 6, No. 9, pp 1455-1467, December 1988.
• Secure Short-Cut Routing for Mobile IP
  Trevor Blackwell and others, Proceedings of the 1994 Summer USENIX, pp 305-316, Boston, MA, June 1994.
• A Mobile Networking System based on Internet Protocol
  Charles E. Perkins and Pravin Bhagwat, IEEE Personal Communications, First Quarter 1994, pp 32-40, 1994.
• The Effects of Mobility on Reliable Transport Protocols
  Ramon Caceres and Liviu Iftode, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems, Poznan, Poland, June 1994.

• Coming Soon in 6.853 - Week of 5/9
• Call for Papers: 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
• Review Template (from SIGCOMM'95)