EPL 602: Foundations of Internet Technologies

Useful Textbooks

• "Web: Protocols and Practice," B. Krishnamurthy and J. Rexford, Addison Wesley, 2001.
• "Content Networking: Architecture, Protocols, and Practice," M. Hofmann & L. R. Beaumont, Morgan Kaufman, 2005.
• "dot.con," J. Kassidy, The Penguin Press.
• "Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design," by Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg
• "Capacity Planning for Web Services," D. Menasce and V. Almeida, PH-PTR.
• "Internet & WWW: How to Program," Deitel, Deitel and Nieto, Prentice Hall
• "Web Server Technology", N. Yeager & R. McGrath, Morgan Kaufmann
• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach," L. L. Peterson and B. S. Davie.
• "Distributed Systems: Design and Concepts," Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg.
• "Web Services Essentials," E. Cerami.

Standardization Bodies

• IETF
• World-Wide Web Consortium

Journals

• ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
• World-Wide Web Journal, by Baltzer.

Proceedings of  the International WWW Conferences (IW3C Committee)

• The Fifteenth (2006) International WWW Conference
• The Founteenth (2005) International WWW Conference
• The Thirteenth (2004) International WWW Conference
• The Twelfth (2003) International WWW Conference
• The Eleventh (2002) International WWW Conference
• The Tenth (2001) International WWW Conference
• The Ninth (2000) International WWW Conference
• The Eighth (1999) International WWW Conference
• The Seventh (1998) International WWW Conference
• The Sixth (1997) International WWW Conference
• The Fifth (1996) International WWW Conference
• The Fourth (1996) International WWW Conference

Other Conferences of Interest

• USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS)
• Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution
• Performance and Architecture of Web Servers (PAWS)

Digital Libraries and Sites with Useful Information

• See the Web-page of the eRACE project for a useful collection of Digital Libraries accessed freely from the UCY Intranet.
• WAP Forum
• ACM´s Digital Library
• IEEE's Digital Library

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Protocol Specifications

• HTTP 1.0
• HTTP 1.1
• Cookies
• Digest Access Authentication
• XML Schemas
• UDDI
• WSDL
• SOAP

XML

• World-Wide Web´s consortium information on XML.
• developerWorks: IBM´s site on XML, with useful tutorials.
• XML.com: a clearinghouse of information on XML
• The Apache XML Project.
• A Technical Introduction to XML, by Norman Walsh from xml.com
• The XML Revolution: Technologies for the future Web, Anders Muller &  Michael I. Schwartzbach, University of Aarhus.
• XML and Databases, by Ronald Bourret, Technical University of Darmstadt.
   

Web Server Technology, Web caching, Squid, Web characterization

• The National Lab for Applied Network Research, in the USA.
• Web caching, from NLANR.
• Brian D. Davison's Web Caching and Content Delivery Resources
• The Harvest Cache and Httpd-Accelerator, from USC.
• Squid.
• Distribution of Stored Information in the Web, an online presentation by K. Ross, Eurecom.
• "Web++: A System for Fast and Reliable Web Service", a talk by Star Labs personel.
• "FIGI: A Financial Information Gathering Infrastructure," a talk and a paper by M. Dikaiakos.
• Satellite Broadcasting of WWW Resources.
• Alexa.com

Performance of Internet Systems

• Internet Performance Modeling Report, from  workshop held at the University of Dortmund.
• Automating Performance Management of Distributed Systems , a collection by Dr O. Rana.
• SpecWeb Benchmarks.
• Transaction Processing Council.

Background Knowledge

• "WWW: Technical Foundations of the World-Wide Web," Erik Wilde, Springer: A comprehensive text I have found to cover many topics of interest for a course on WWW. The treaty is not  very extensive, but it provides a good start before searching on the Web.
• "Internet &  WWW - How to Program," Deitel, Deitel & Nieto, Prentice Hall
• "Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML," by Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, Dan Suciu, and Jim Gray.
• "Web Server Technology", N. Yeager & R. McGrath, Morgan Kaufmann : Very good book, although a bit outdated.
• "Multimedia & Hypertext: The Internet & Beyond", J. Nielsen, Academic Press : An introductory book, covering some basic material on usability issues of hypermedia applications.
• "Computer Networking:  A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet," by  J. Kurose and K. Ross: An on-line textbook with very interesting material. Its first chapters can be reviewed for an in -depth introduction on Internet.
• The World-Wide Web Consortium and the International WWW Conferences: Through their Web-pages you can find enormous and up-to-date information about all aspects of the WWW.
• Course Web-pages from other Universities provide very useful material, such as papers, presentations, links to textbooks. In particular, I suggest you take a look at:
  • Dan Weld's CSE 490i - Advanced Internet Systems, at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Dan has generously put a lot of his notes on the Web, and we will cover some of the material he has covered.
  • JP Singh's CS 597a -   Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Scalable Internet Services and  Infrastructure at Princeton University. More systems-oriented seminar, with very interesting collection of papers.
  • B. Pierce's B629: Languages for Programming the Web at the University of Pennsylvania; focusing on programming languages and semantics for the Web.
    A. LaPaugh's CS 598b -  Advanced Topics in Computer Science, Digital Information Access at Princeton University. Provides a rich collection of papers about Information Retrieval

Papers on Strategic Views regarding Internet

• The history of communications and its implications for the Internet, A. M. Odlyzko.
• Content is not king, A. M. Odlyzko. First Monday 6(2) (February 2001).

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JAVA

• Sun Microsystems´ Java Web-site, with lots of tutorials and primers on various aspects of Java technologies.
• Javaworld
• Java Tutorial, from Sun Microsystems.
• Lecture Notes on Java, from a course taught at the Polytechnic University, NY.
• Java Language Basics, the "official" tutorial on Java, from Sun Microsystems.
• Bruce Eckel's Java Book, Thinking in Java, in a free online form.
• Java Network Programming, an electronic book by M. Hughes.
• Java´s Performance Report.
• Java Security: From HotJava to Netscape and Beyond, by Ed. Felten.
   

Related Courses on the WEB

• CS 461 Computer Networks, by J. Rexford, Princeton, Spring 2006.
• CS 595I - Seminar on Scalable Web Services and Systems, by  K. E. Schauser & T. von Eicken Dept. of CS - UCSB
• Computer Science & Engineering: CSE 597I Computational Issues in E-Commerce and the E-World, by Lee Giles, Penn State, Fall 2000.
• CS193i Internet Technologies, Stanford University, Introductory Course, Spring 98-99.
• Digital Information Access, Princeton University, Graduate Seminar, Spring semester of 1999.
• CSE 590H - Human Computer Interaction Seminar, University of Washington, Winter 1998.
• CS W4180: Internet Security, Columbia University, Spring 1999.
• CS4995-03: Internet Systems Programming (ISP), Columbia University, Fall 1999.
• CS E6998-043: Advanced Internet Services, Columbia University, Spring 1998.
• Internet: Technology, Protocols and Services, Columbia University, Spring 1996.
• CS 590AT/CS 590S: System Support for Wide Area Applications, University of Washington, Fall 1997.
• CS 597a, Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Scalable Internet Services and Infrastructure, Princeton University, Fall 1999.
• CSE 490i - Advanced Internet Systems, U. of Washington, Spring 2000.
• B629: Languages for Programming the Web, U. of Pennsylvania, Fall 2000.
• CPS 296-2: System Support for Wide-Area Applications, Duke U., Spring 1999.
• CS 444I, Spring 00, Advanced Topics in Internet Technologies and Systems, Stanford U, Spring 2000.
• Software Engineering of Innovative Web Services, MIT, Spring 2000.
• The Internet Engineering Curriculum Repository, contains lists of similar courses, online notes, etc.