Readings for CSc 450: Web Technologies and Performance (for Nov 12)

Note that some of these are links to Postscript or PDF and you will need the appropriate viewers.

Backbone Characteristics

V. Paxson, 1997. End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet.. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 5(5): 601-615.
Y. Zhang, V. Paxson, and S. Shenker, 2000. The Stationarity of Internet Path Properties: Routing, Loss, and Throughput. ACIRI Technical Report.
B. Chandra, M. Dahlin, L. Gao, A. Nayate, 2001. End-to-end WAN Service Availability. USITS 2001.

Multimedia Streaming

Chapter 12 of Web Protocols and Practice. (BACKGROUND)
Jae Kim, 2000. Streaming Media Economics: Waiting for the Dough. White Paper. (BACKGROUND, Local copy)
Maureen Chesire, Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, Henry Levy, 2001. Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming Workload. USITS01.
Dario Luparello, Sarit Mukherjee, and Sanjoy Paul, 2001. Streaming media traffic: an empirical study. Proc. of Sixth Int'l Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution. Local copy.
John Byers, Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, and Ashutosh Rege, 1998. A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data, Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM.
John Byers, Michael Luby, and Michael Mitzenmacher, 1999. Accessing Multiple Mirror Sites in Parallel: Using Tornado Codes to Speed Up Downloads. IEEE INFOCOM.