File Systems

• Vincent Cate, ``Alex - a Global Filesystem.'' Proceedings of the 1992 USENIX File System Workshop, p. 1-12, May, 1992.
• Michael K. Gschwind, ``FTP Access as a User-Defined File System.'' Operating Systems Review, p. 73-80, April, 1994.
• J. Howard, M. Kazar, S. Menees, D. Nichols, M. Satyanarayanan, R. Sidebotham, M. West, ``Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System.'' Transactions on Computer Systems, volume 6, number 1, p. 51-82, February, 1998.
• S. R. Kleiman, ``Vnodes: An Architecture For Multiple File System in SUN UNIX.'' Proceedings of the 1986 USENIX Summer Technical Conference, p. 238-247, 1986.
• Mirjana Spasojevic and M. Satyanarayanan, ``A Usage Profile and Evaluation of a Wide-Area File System.'' Proceedings of the USENIX Winter Technical Conference, 1994.

Scalability

• J. D. Guyton and M. F. Schwartz, ``Locating Nearby Copies of Replicated Internet Servers.'' In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, 1995.
• L.B. Mummert, M.R. Ebling, and M. Satyanarayanan, ``Exploiting Weak Connectivity for Mobile File Access.'' Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating ystems Principles, December, 1995.
• Michael Stonebraker, Paul Aoki, Witold Litwin, Avi Pfeiffer, Adam Sah, Jeff Sidell, Carl Staelin, and Andrew Yu, ``Mariposa: A Wide-Area Distributed Database System.'' VLDB Journal, p. 48-63, January, 1996.
• Douglas B. Terry, Marvin M. Theimer, Karin Peterson, Alan J. Demers, Mike J. Spreitzer, and Carl H. Hauser, ``Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System.'' Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, p. 172-183, December, 1995.
• C. Yoshikawa, B. Chun, P. Eastham, A. Vahdat, T. Anderson, and D. Culler. ``Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services.'' To appear, Proc. of the 1997 USENIX Conference, Jan. 1997.

Caching

• A. Chankhunthod, P. Danzig, C. Neerdaels, M. Schwartz, and K. Worrell, ``A Hierarchical Internet Object Cache.'' Proceedings of the 1996 USENIX Technical Conference, January, 1996.
• C. Gray and D. Cheriton, ``Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency.'' Symposium on Operating Systems Principles p. 202-210, 1989.
• James Gwertzman and Margo Seltzer, ``World-Wide Web Cache Consistency.'' Proceedings of the 1996 USENIX Technical Conference, p. 141-151, January, 1996.
• Ari Luotonen and Kevin Atlis, ``World-Wide Web Proxies.'' First International Conference on the World-Wide Web, April, 1994.

Building Blocks

• James Gosling and Henry McGilton, ``The Java(tm) Language Environment: A White Paper'', 1995.
• Eric Dean Katz, Michelle Butler, and Robert McGrath, ``A Scalable HTTP Server: The NCSA Prototype.'' First International Conference on the World-Wide Web, April, 1994.
• Hirano Satoshi, ``The Magic Carpet for Network Computing: HORB Flyer's Guide'', March, 1996.
• Telescript Home Page, General Magic, 1996.

Network Characteristics

• Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Mark Stemm, and Randy Katz, ``Analyzing Stability in Wide-Area Network Performance''. Sigmetrics, 1997.
• Robert L. Carter and Mark E. Crovella, ``Dynamic Server Selection using Bandwidth Probing Wide-Area Networks''. Boston University Technical Report BU-CS-96-007. March 18, 1996.
• Rich Wolski, ``Forecasting Network Performance to Support Dynamic Scheduling Using the Network Weather Service''. HPDC '97.

Security and Authentication

• Steven M. Bellovin and Michael Merritt, ``Limitations of the Kerneros Authentication System.'' Proceedings of the 1991 USENIX Winter Conference, 1991.
• Michael Burrows, Martin Abadi, and Roger Needham, ``A Logic of Authentication.'' Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, p. 1-13, December, 1989.
• Butler Lampson and Martín Abadi and Michael Burrows and Edward Wobber, ``Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice.'' Digital Technical Report 083, February 1992.
• Adam Cain, ``Update of NCSA Web-Security Development'', July, 1995.
• Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, ``New Directons in Cryptography.'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, p. 74-84, June, 1977.
• Alan Freier, Philip Karlton, and Paul Kocher, ``Secure Socket Layer'', March, 1996.
• R. L. Rivest, A. Shamir, and L. Adelman, ``A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems.'' Communications of the ACM, February, 1978.
• David Wagner, Ian Goldberg, and Randi Thomas ``A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications: Confining the Wily Hacker.'' 1996 USENIX Security Symposium.
• Edward Wobber, Martin Abadi, Michael Burrows, and Butler Lampson, ``Authentication in the Taos Operating System.'' Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, p. 256-269, December, 1993.
• Phil Zimmerman, ``PGP User's Guide, Volume II: Special Topics.'' Online Documentation, 1994.

Miscellaneous

• Eric Brewer and Paul Gauthier, ``The Inktomi Search Engine'', 1995.