Selected Topics

• Understanding Concurrency: Interleavings
• Spinlocks and Semaphores
• Readers and Writers
  • Everything on the Readers and Writers Problem!
• Monitors
• Unix I: process management and file commands
  • Jan Newmarch (Canberra U.): Processes, Process Management, IPC 1, IPC 2
    Unix oriented, with code examples
• Unix II: errors, pipes, FIFOs, protection, file locks, shared memory, and memory-mapped IO
  • Using Read and Write Locks: Example
• Signals
  • Tutorial on Signals by Jim Frost (Software Tool & Die)
• Measuring Time
  • lmbench: Tools for Performance Analysis
  • Performance Analysis Results using LMBENCH
  • Sun Performance Information
• Unix III: select
• Threads: Part I, Part II
  • CMU 15-412: Operating Systems: Threads
  • John Ousterhout's Why Threads are a Bad Idea
  • Guide to DecTHREADS
  • SUN's Multithreaded Programming Guide
• Performance Evaluation
• File Structure - Stable Storage
  • Princeton University CS598e: Distributed Storage Systems
• Unix IV: Sockets
• Networks:
  • Data Transmission
  • Packet Transmission
  • Network Architectures
  • Structure and Naming in the Internet
    • Chuck Semeria (3Com): Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
    • Subnetting and CIDR (Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia)
    • See also RFC1812
  • Some Protocols
    • A Quick Tour around TCP
  • Local Area Networks
    • Spurgeon's Ethernet Web Site
  • Bridges, Routing
  For Networks see also:
  • Leon-Garcia, Indra Widjaja: Communication Networks
  • James Kurose, Keith Ross: Computer Networking
  • Peterson, Davie: Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
  • Introduction to Networks, Unix Scavenger Hunt, Protocol Analysis using Lanwatch, by Professor Robert Stafford (Temple University)
  • The Network Book by Professor Yechiam Yemini (Columbia University)
  • CISCO's Information on Networking
  • 3COM White Papers on Networking
  • Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
  • Internet Engineering Curriculum Repository
• Random concepts about distributed systems
• Remote Procedure Calls
  • Tom Doepner: - Brown University - Remote Procedure Calls
  • Douglas C. Schmidt: - Washington University - Overview of Remote Procedure Call
  • Digital Unix: Programming with ONC RPC
  • Sun's ONC+ Developer's Guide
• Transactions
  • Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques
• Security
  • Introduction to Public-Key Cryptography (Netscape)
  • Introduction to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  • RSA Laboratories FAQ
  • The SANS Institute: Top Ten Security Threats
• Logical Clocks
• Mutual Exclusion and Elections in Distributed Systems
• Deadlocks
• N-Tier Architectures, Distributed Objects, ...
  • MICO is CORBA - a free CORBA implementation (including source code)