Required Reading List

  1. Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Liben-Nowell, David R. Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, Frank Dabek, Hari Balakrishnan. Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2003.
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  2. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2004.
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  3. Christopher Olston, Benjamin Reedy, Utkarsh Srivastavava, Ravi Kumar, Andrew Tomkins. Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing. SIGMOD, 2008.
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  4. Leslie Lamport. Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. Communications of the ACM, Volume 21 , Issue 7 (July 1978), pages 558-565.
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Optional Reading List

•  Distributed database design
    ◊  Vertical fragmentation

1. S. Navathe, S. Ceri, G. Wiederhold, J. Dou. Vertical Partitioning Algorithms for Database Design. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), volume 9, issue 4, 1984.
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•  Query processing and optimization in distributed databases
    ◊  Privacy-preserving join

2. R. Agrawal, A. Evfimievski, R. Srikant. Information Sharing Across Private Databases. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, San Diego, California, 2003.
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•  P2P
    ◊  Designing a Super-peer Network

3. Yang, Beverly and Garcia-Molina, Hector (2003) Designing a Super-peer Network. In: IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE 2003), March 5-8, 2003, Bangalore, India.
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•  Distributed information retrieval
    ◊  Crawling

4. P. Boldi, B. Codenotti, M. Santini, S. Vigna. UbiCrawler: A Scalable Fully Distributed Web Crawler. Software Practice & Experience 34(8): 711-726.
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    ◊  Caching

5. R. Baeza-Yates, A. Gionis, F. Junqueira, V. Murdock, V. Plachouras, F. Silvestri. The Impact of Caching on Search Engines. ACM SIGIR International Conference on Information Retrieval, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.
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