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Background Reading

Basics / Overview

• Xen and the Art of Virtualization
  https://doi.org/10.1145/945445.945462

• Resilient Overlay Networks
  https://doi.org/10.1145/502034.502048

• Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
  https://doi.org/10.1145/1294261.1294281

• Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
  https://doi.org/10.1145/1773912.1773922

• Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System
  http://usenix.org/event/osdi06/tech/weil.html

• Consensus in the Cloud: Paxos Systems Demystified
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2016.7568499

• Openstack Documentation
  https://docs.openstack.org/

Survey Literature

• A Comprehensive Survey on Fog Computing: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges
  https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2017.2771153

• On the Economics of Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Providers: Pricing, Markets, and Profit Maximization
  http://hdl.handle.net/11343/45125

• Allocation of Virtual Machines in Cloud Data Centers--A Survey of Problem Models and Optimization Algorithms
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2797211

• The State of Public Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Security
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2767181

• Ensuring Security and Privacy Preservation for Cloud Data Services
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2906153

• Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges
  https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2015.2477041

Research Papers

Papers with initials in front of their title will be presented in class.

Computing

• (DB) My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3132747.3132763

• (NK) EbbRT: A Framework for Building Per-Application Library Operating Systems
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/schatzberg

• Light-Weight Contexts: An OS Abstraction for Safety and Performance
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/panda

• SnowFlock: Virtual Machine Cloning as a First-Class Cloud Primitive
  https://doi.org/10.1145/1925109.1925111

Networking

• (SK) The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch
  https://www.usenix.org/node/188961

• (ZM) Network Requirements for Resource Disaggregation
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/gao

• On Scalability of Software-Defined Networking
  https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6461198

• NetBricks: Taking the V out of NFV
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/panda

Storage

• (DM) Redefining Data Locality for Cross-Data Center Storage
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2756594.2756596
  Disk-Locality in Datacenter Computing Considered Irrelevant
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotosxiii/legacy-presentation/disk-locality-datacenter-computing-considered-irrelevant

• (MA) Swift-X: Accelerating OpenStack Swift with RDMA for Building an Efficient HPC Cloud
  https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2017.103

• Performance Optimization for All Flash Scale-Out Storage
  https://doi.org/10.1109/CLUSTER.2016.11

Architecture

• (CH) Supercloud: A Library Cloud for Exploiting Cloud Diversity
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3132038

• Multi-Hypervisor Virtual Machines: Enabling an Ecosystem of Hypervisor-level Services
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc17/technical-sessions/presentation/gopalan

Consensus

• (JT) In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm
  https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

• (ZS) Just Say NO to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/li

• Paxos Made Simple
  https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf

Security

• (TM) Shielding Applications from an Untrusted Cloud with Haven
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2799647

• (SE) Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution
  https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01203

• SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/arnautov

• Depot: Cloud Storage with Minimal Trust
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2063509.2063512

Monitoring

• (UA) Resource Central: Understanding and Predicting Workloads for Improved Resource Management in Large Cloud Platforms
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3132747.3132772

• (BS) Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3038912.3052707

• Quantifying the Mismatch between Emerging Scale-Out Applications and Modern Processors
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2382553.2382557

• Hansel: Diagnosing Faults in OpenStack
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2716281.2836108

• Patterns in the Chaos--A Study of Performance Variation and Predictability in Public IaaS Clouds
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2885497

Consolidation

• (SS) Virtual Machine Consolidation in the Wild
  https://doi.org/10.1145/2663165.2663316

• Power-aware server consolidation for federated clouds
  https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.3807