CS269 paper summaries

Introduction

• D.D. CLark and L.Svobodova, Design of distributed systems supporting local autonomy. Proceedings 20th IEEE Computer Society International Conference (COMPCON), February 1980. AF
• R. Bagrodia, W.W. Chu, L. Kleinrock, and G. Popek. Vision, issues, and architecture for nomadic computing. IEEE Personal Communications, December 1995. SG

Communication: RPC, Mobile IP, Multicast

• A. Bakre and B.R. Badrinath, M-RPC: A remote procedure call service for mobile clients. Proceedings First International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '95), November 1995. AF
• D.B. Johnson, Scalable support for transparent mobile host internetworking. Wireless Networks, October 1995. SG
• K.P. Birman, The process group approach to reliable distributed computing. Communications of the ACM, December 1993. AF

Synchronization: Clocks, Event Ordering, Snapshots

• F. Cristian, A probabilistic approach to distributed clock synchronization. Proceedings 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, June 1989. SG
• M. Chandy and L. Lamport, Distributed snapshots: Determining global states of distributed systems. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, February 1985. AF

Naming: Identifiers, Directory Services, Resource Location

• D.C. Oppen and Y.K. Dalal, The Clearinghouse: A decentralized agent for locating named objects in a distributed environment. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, July 1983. SG

Distributed Database Type Things

• Alan Demers, Karin Petersen, Mike Spreitzer, Doug Terry, Marvin Theimer, Brent Welch. The Bayou Architecture: Support for Data Sharing Among Mobile Users. AF

Security: Encryption, Privacy, Authentication, Access Control, Electronic Commerce

• B. Lampson, M. Abadi, M. Burrows, and E. Wobber. Authentication in distributed systems: Theory and practice. Proceedings Thirteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 1991. AF
• D. Brown, Techniques for privacy and authentication in Personal Communication Systems. IEEE Personal Communications, August 1995. SG
• M. Spreitzer and M. Theimer, Architectural considerations for scalable, secure, mobile computing with location information. Proceedings 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, June 1994. AF
• M. Sirbu and J.D. Tygar, NetBill: An internet commerce system optimized for network-delivered services. IEEE Personal Communications, August 1995. SG