# Index

### Overview, Architecture, Introduction 

* [Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS838/F12/838-CloudPapers/AboveTheClouds.pdf), M. Armbrust, A. Fox, R. Griffith, A.D. Joseph, R.H. Katz, A. Konwinski, G. Lee, D.A. Patterson, A. Rabkin, I. Stoica, M. Zaharia, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2009-28, Feb 10, 2009.
* [The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines ](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS838/F12/838-CloudPapers/DCAsAComputer.pdf), L.A. Barroso, U. Holzle, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 2009.
* Overview of AWS/Azure/AppEngine.

### Data Analytics Frameworks 

* DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language, Y. Yu, M. Isard, D. Fetterly, M. Budiu, U. Erlingsson, P.K. Gunda, J. Currey, OSDI 2008.
* FlumeJava: Easy, Efficient Data-Parallel Pipelines, Craig Chambers, Ashish Raniwala, Frances Perry, Stephen Adams, Robert R. Henry, Robert Bradshaw, Nathan Weizenbaum, PLDI 2010.
* Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets, S. Melnik, A. Gubarev, J.J. Long, G. Romer, S. Shivakumar, M. Tolton, T. Vassilakis, VLDB 2010.
* Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing., Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Justin Ma, Murphy McCauley, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. NSDI 2012. April 2012.

### Enterprise usecases and Workload Characterization 

* CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications, T. Benson, A. Akella, A. Shaikh, S. Sahu, SOCC 2011.
* Cloudward Bound: Planning for Beneficial Migration of Enterprise Applications to the Cloud, Mohammad Hajjat, Xin Sun, Yu-Wei Eric Sung, David A. Maltz, Sanjay Rao, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, and Mohit Tawarmalani, Sigcomm 2010.
* Stratos: Virtual Middleboxes as First Class Entities, A. Gember, R. Grandl, A. Anand, T. Benson, and A. Akella, UW-Madison Tech Report, 2012.
* Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild, T. Benson, A. Akella and D. Maltz, IMC 2010.
* A First Look at Inter-Data Center Traffic Characteristics via Yahoo! Datasets, Y. Chen at al, Infocom 2011.
* Towards Characterizing Cloud Backend Workloads: Insights from Google Compute Clusters, A. Mishra, J. Hellerstein, W. Cirne, C. Das, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2010.

### Data Center Networks and Protocols 

* PortLand: A Scalable Fault-Tolerant Layer 2 Data Center Network Fabric, R.N. Mysore, A. Pamboris, N. Farrington, N. Huang, P. Miri, S. Radhakrishnan, V. Subramanya, A. Vahdat, ACM SIGCOMM 2009.
* c-Through: Part-time Optics in Data Centers, G. Wang, D.G. Andersen, M. Kaminsky, K. Papagiannaki, T.S.E. Ng, M. Kozuch, M. Ryan, ACM SIGCOMM 2010.
* Multi-Resource Fair Queueing for Packet Processing, A. Ghodsi, V. Sekar, M. Zaharia, I. Stoica, SIGCOMM 2012.
* Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture, V. Sekar, N. Egi, S. Ratnasamy, M.K. Reiter, G. Shi, NSDI 2012.
* FairCloud: Sharing the Network in Cloud Computing, L. Popa et al., SIGCOMM 2012.
* Less is More: Trading a little Bandwidth for Ultra-Low Latency in the Data Center, Mohammad Alizadeh, Abdul Kabbani, Tom Edsall, Balaji Prabhakar, Amin Vahdat, and Masato Yasuda, NSDI 2012.
* ICTCP: Incast Congestion Control for TCP in Data Center Networks, H. Wu, Z. Feng, C. Guo, Y. Zhang, ACM CoNEXT 2010.

### Software Defined Networking

* N. McKeown, T. Anderson, H. Balakrishnan, G. Parulkar, L. Peterson, J.Rexford, S. Shenker, J. Turner, OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 38, Issue 2, pp. 69-74, 2008.
* Live Migration of an Entire Network (and its Hosts), E. Keller, S. Ghorbani, M. Caesar, and J. Rexford, HotNets, 2012.

### Storage 

### Security 


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