Reading List

System Performance Textbook Reading:

R. Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Evaluation
John Wiley & Sons, 1991, ISBN: 0-471-50336-3

Tool Reading:

Team ns-2, The ns-2 page

Luigi Rizzo, The dummynet page

Internet Traffic:

V. Paxson, and S. Floyd
Wide-Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson Modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 226-244, June 1995
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W. E. Leland, M. S. Taqqu, W. Willinger, and D. V. Wilson
On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-15, Feb. 1995
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M. E. Crovella and A. Bestavros
Self-Similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible Causes
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 5, No. 6, pp. 835-846, December 1997
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Anja Feldmann; Anna C. Gilbert; Polly Huang; Walter Willinger
Dynamics of IP traffic: A study of the role of variability and the impact of control
In the Proceeding of SIGCOMM 1999, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1999
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Internet Topology:

E. W. Zegura, K. Calvert and M. J. Donahoo
A Quantitative Comparison of Graph-based Models for Internet Topology
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1997
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M. Faloutsos, P. Faloutsos and C. Faloutsos
On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
In the Proceedings of Sigcomm 1999, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1999
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H. Tangmunarunkit, R. Govindan, S. Jamin, S. Shenker, W. Willinger
Network Topology Generators: Degree-Based vs. Structural
In the Proceedings of Sigcomm 2002
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D. Vukadinovic, P. Huang, T. Erlebach
On the Spectrum and Structure of Internet Topology Graphs
In the proceedings of I2CS 2002
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Internet Dynamics:

Vern Paxson
End-to-end internet packet dynamics
ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 7(3):277-292, June 1999
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Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian
Internet routing instability
ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 6(5):515-528, October 1998
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Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Ramesh Govindan, and Scott Shenker
Internet path inflation due to policy routing
In Proceedings of the SPIE ITCom, pages 188-195, Denver, CO, USA, August 2001. SPIE
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Lixin Gao
On inferring automonous system relationships in the internet
ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 9(6):733-745, December 2001
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Case Studies:

J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley, and J. Kurose
Modeling TCP throughput: A simple model and its empirical validation
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, pages 303-314, Vancouver, Canada, September 1998. ACM
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J. Broch, D. Maltz, D. Johnson, Y. Hu, J. Jetcheva
A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols
In the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'98)
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M. Christiansen, K. Jeffay, D. Ott, and F. Donelson Smith
Tuning RED for web traffic
In ACM SIGCOMM2000, August 2000
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