History and Philosophy

• [CT90] D. Clark and D. Tennenhouse, Architectural Consideration for a New Generation of Protocols, In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '90 (Philadelphia, PA, September 1990).
• [SRC84] J. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D. Clark, End-to-end Arguments in System Design. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 195-206, 1984.
• [Cla88] D. Clark, Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols, In Proc. SIGCOMM '88.
• [CK74] V. Cerf and R. Kahn, A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection. IEEE Transactions on Communications COM-22, pp. 637-641 , 1974.

Network performance and measurement techniques

• [Pax96] V. Paxson, End-to-End Routing Behavior in the Internet, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 601-615, October 1997 (Earlier version in Proc. SIGCOMM '96, Stanford, CA, August 1996.)
• [Bol93] J.-C. Bolot, End-to-End Packet Delay and Loss Behavior in the Internet. In Proceedings of SIGCOMM '93 (San Francisco, CA, August, 1993).

Congestion control

• [JK88] V. Jacobson, Congestion Avoidance and Control, In Proc. SIGCOMM '88.
• [FJ88] S. Floyd and V. Jacobson, Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 1, No. 4, August 1993, pp. 397-413.
• [DKS90] A. Demers, S. Keshav, and S. Shenker, Analysis and Simulation of a Fair Queueing Algorithm, Internetworking: Research and Experience, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-26, 1990. An early version appeared at SIGCOMM '89.
• [Z+90] L. Zhang, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Shenker, and D. Zappala, RSVP: A New Resource Reservation Protocol, IEEE Network, Vol. 7, pp. 8-18, September 1993.
• [JDSZ97] S. Jamin, P.B. Danzig, S.J. Shenker, L. Zhang, A Measurement-based Admission Control Algorithm for Integrated Services Packet Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 56-70.

High Speed Forwarding and Router Design

• [WVTP97] M. Waldvogel, G. Varghese, J. Turner, and B. Plattner, Scalable High Speed IP Routing Lookups.; In Proc. SIGCOMM '97, pp. 25-36, Cannes, France, September 1997.
• [P+98] C. Partridge et al., A 50 Gb/s IP Router, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 237-248, June 1998.

Multicast and Multimedia

• [DC90] S. Deering and D. Cheriton, Multicast Routing in Datagram Internetworks and Extended LANs, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 85-110, May, 1990.
• [DE+94] S. Deering, D. Estrin, D. Farinacci, V. Jacobson, C.-G. Liu, and L. Wei, An Architecture for Wide-Area Multicast Routing, In Proc. SIGCOMM '94, London, U.K., September 1994.
• [BFC93] T. Ballardie, P. Francis, and J. Crowcroft, Core Based Trees (CBT): An Architecture for Scalable Inter-Domain Multicast Routing. In Proc. SIGCOMM '93, San Francisco, CA, August 1993.
• [MJV96] S. McCanne, V. Jacobson, M. Vetterli, Receiver-driven Layered Multicast, In Proc. SIGCOMM '96, Stanford, CA, August 1996.
• [SGLA97] C. Shields and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, The Ordered Core Based Tree Protocol, In the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOMM '97, April 7-11, 1997.
• [LGLA98] B.N. Levine and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, A Comparison of Reliable Multicast Protocols, ACM Multimedia '98.
• [F+97] S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, C. Liu, S. McCanne, and L. Zhang, A Reliable Multicast Framework for Lightweight Sessions and Application Level Framing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 784-803, December 1997.

Active networks

• [T+97] D. Tennenhouse, J. Smith, D. Sincoskie, D. Wetherall, G. Minden, A Survey of Active Networks Research, IEEE Comm. Magazine, January 1997.
• [AMK98]E. Amir, S. McCanne, R. Katz, An Active Service Framework and its Application to Real-time Media Transcoding, In Proc. SIGCOMM '98, pp. 178-189, Vancouver, Canada, September 1998.

Web protocols and web caching

• [PM95] V. Padmanabhan and J. Mogul, Improving HTTP Latency, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, v. 28, pp. 25-35, December 1995.
• [N+97]H. Nielsen, J. Gettys, A. Baird-Smith, E. Prid'hommeaux, H. Lie, C. Lilley, Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG, In Proc. SIGCOMM '97, Cannes, France, September 1997.
• [FCAB98]L. Fan, P. Cao, J. Almeida, A. Broder, Summary Cache: A Scalable Wide-Area Cache Sharing Protocol, In Proc. SIGCOMM '98, pp. 254-265, Vancouver, Canada, September 1998.
• [CiscoCache] Shared Network Caching and Cisco's Cache Engine, Cisco Systems Inc., April 1998.

Mobile and Wireless Networking

• [JM96] D.B. Johnson and D.A. Maltz, Protocols for Adaptive Wireless and Mobile Networking, IEEE Personal Communications, 3(1):34-42, February 1996.
• [CB96] S. Cheshire and M. Baker, Experiences with a Wireless Network in MosquitoNet, IEEE Hot Interconnects Symposium '95, August 95. A newer version appears in IEEE Micro, February 1996.
• [XP99] G. Xylomenos and G.C. Polyzos, TCP and UDP Performance over a Wireless LAN, Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOMM '99 Conference.
• [XP97] G. Xylomenos and G.C. Polyzos, IP Multicast for Mobile Hosts, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1997.
• [BP97] H. Balakrishnan, V.N. Padmanabhan, and R.H. Katz. o A Comparison of Mechanisms for Improving TCP Performance, IEEE Transactions on Networking, 5(6):756-769, December 1997.
• [CI95] R. Caceres and L. Iftode. Improving the Performance of Reliable Transport Protocols in Mobile Computing Environments, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, 13(5):850-857, June 1995.
• Itsy Pocket Computing Project

Middleware (e.g., JINI)

• [SUN98] SUN Microsystems, JINI(tm) Architecture Specification, SUN whitepaper, January 1999.
• [B99], Bluetooth Technology, A Global Specification for Wireless Connectivity, 1999.
• [MOT99], Motorola Corporation, Piano Overview, March 1999.
• [HP99], Hewlett-Packard Corporation, The JetSend Protocol, 1999.
• [HAVI98], HAVI: Home Audio/Visual Interoperability, 1998

Resource naming and discovery

• [MD88] P. V. Mockapetris and K. Dunlap, Development of the Domain Name System. In Proceedings of SIGCOMM '88 (Stanford, CA, August, 1988).
• [LDAP95] W. Yeong, T. Howes, S. Kille, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, RFC 1777, March 1995
• [SLP98] Service Location Protocol, 1998.
• [HK98] T. Hodes and R. Katz, Composable Ad hoc Location-based Services for Heterogeneous Mobile Clients, ACM Wireless Networks Journal, 1998 (to appear). Earlier version appeared in Mobicom '97.
• [ASB99] William Adjie-Winoto, Elliot Schwartz, and Hari Balakrishnan. An Architecture for Intentional Name Resolution and Application-level Routing , MIT-LCS-TR-775 (Feb 1999).

Network Security

• [B96] J.G. Steiner, B.C. Neuman, and J.I. Schiller, Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems, 1988.
• [B96] G. Back, The RSA Algorithm and PGP, Unpublished Univ of Utah technical report, Autumn 1996.
• [NT94] B.C. Neuman and T. Tso, Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Computer Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, 32(9), pp. 33-38, September 1994.
• [FV94] D. Farmer and W. Venema, Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into It, unpublished technical report, 1994.
• [B92] S.M. Bellovin, There Be Dragons, Proceedings of the Third Usenix UNIX Security Symposium, September 1992
• [B98] M. Bishop, Robust Programming, University of California - Davis, Technical Report. See also here.
• [TL94] T.Y.C. Woo and S.S. Lam, A Lesson in Authentication Protocol Design, ACM Operating Systems Review, 28(3), 1994.
• [RFC1825] R. Atkinson, Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol, RFC 1825, August 1995.
• [Mit97] S. Mittra, Iolus: A Framework for Scalable Secure Multicasting, In Proc. SIGCOMM '97, pp. 277-288, Cannes, France, September 1997.
• [RFC2069] J. Franks et al., An Extension to HTTP: Digest Access Authentication, January 1997 (or something similar on HTTP security).