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Suggested Additional Readings

On Operating Systems Implentation:
- The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System.
  Kirk et. al.
  Addison Wesley, 1996.
- Understanding the Linux Kernel
  Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
  O'Reilley, 2000.
On concurrent programming:
- An introduction to programming with threads.
  Andrew Birrel
  Research Report 35, Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, 1989.
On networking:
- End-to-End Arguments in System Design.
  Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed, and David D. Clark.
  Second International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pages 509-512.
  ACM Transactions in Computer Systems 2, 4, November 1984, pages 277-288.
- Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks
  Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs
  Communications of the ACM, 7, Volume 9, July 1976
On Memory Allocation
- A Memory Allocator
  Doug Lea
  A short documentation on the implementation his malloc routines, April 2000
On P2P File Systems
- Storage Management and Caching in PAST, A Large-scale, Persistent Peer-to-peer Storage Utility
  Antony Rowstron and Peter Druschel
  18th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 2001
- Wide-Area Cooperative Storage with CFS
  Frank Dabek, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris and Ion Stoica
  18th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 2001
On Distributed Systems
- Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process
  Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, and Michael S. Paterson
  Journal of the ACM, 32(2):374-382, April 1985
- The Byzantine Generals Problem
  Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease
  ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 4(3):382-401, July 1982