wiki:Bibliography

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Here are some papers that are potentially of interest.

Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store -- sophisticated distributed hash table polished by extensive high-performance practical usage; An excellent paper!

Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab (2005) -- practical lessons in DHT performance that theoreticians learned by deployment

Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs -- practical lessons in dealing with not-fully-connected DHTs that theoreticians learned in deployment

POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System -- use a DHT for messaging; includes a suggestion to ameliorate the confidentiality problems of single-instance store by adding random bits to small text messages

A brief history of Consensus, 2PC and Transaction Commit. -- a web page summarizing the evolution of the academic theory of decentralized, reliable systems.

Measurement and Analysis of TCP Throughput Collapse in Cluster-based Storage Systems -- Hm... Could this happen to us?

Crypto

Salsa20 Design a fast and secure cipher

Salsa20 Security Arguments why Salsa20 is probably safe against this and that threat

ECC Brainpool Standard Curves and Curve Generation new elliptic curve parameters which are more certain to be safe

Local Filesystems

IRON Filesystems examines how ext3, reiserfs, xfs, and ntfs handle various sorts of errors

See Also

This page is inspired by flud's Related Papers page, which is well worth reading.

See also Ludovic Courtès's excellent bibliography of cooperative backup.

See also our RelatedProjects page.