OS Structure
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On micro-kernel construction
J. Liedtke
SOSP'95
(Saurabh)

Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
D. R. Engler, M. F. Kaashoek and J. O'Toole
SOSP'95
(Saurabh)

Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
B. N. Bershad, S. Savage, P. Pardyak, E. G. Sirer, M. E. Fiuczynski, D. Becker, C. Chambers and S. Eggers
SOSP'95
(Saurabh)

Cellular Disco: resource management using virtual clusters on shared-memory multiprocessors
Kinshuk Govil, Dan Teodosiu, Yongqiang Huang and Mendel Rosenblum
SOSP'99


Performance Monitoring/Profiling
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Soft timers: efficient microsecond software timer support for network processing
Mohit Aron and Peter Druschel.
SOSP'99.
(Murali)

Continuous profiling where have all the cycles gone?
Jennifer M. Anderson, Lance M. Berc, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Monika R. Henzinger, Shun-Tak A. Leung, Richard L. Sites, Mark T. Vandevoorde, Carl A. Waldspurger and William E. Weihl.
SOSP'97.

System support for automatic profiling and optimization
Xiaolan Zhang, Zheng Wang, Nicholas Gloy, J. Bradley Chen and Michael D. Smith
SOSP'97.
(Murali)

The measured performance of personal computer operating systems
J. B. Chen, Y. Endo, K. Chan, D. Mazieres, A. Dias, M. Seltzer and M. D. Smith
SOSP'95.
(Murali)

Optimistic incremental specialization: streamlining a commercial operating system
C. Pu, T. Autrey, A. Black, C. Consel, C. Cowan, J. Inouye, L. Kethana, J. Walpole and K. Zhang
SOSP'95.
(Murali)


Clusters
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Manageability, availability and performance in Porcupine: a highly scalable, cluster-based mail service.
Yasushi Saito, Brian N. Bershad and Henry M. Levy.
SOSP'99.
(Jianyong)

Cluster-based scalable network services
Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Yatin Chawathe, Eric A. Brewer and Paul Gauthier
SOSP'97.
(Jianyong)

Locality-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers
V. S. Pai, M. Aron, G. Banga, M. Svendsen, P. Druschel, W. Zwaenepoel, E. Nahum
ASPLOS'98
(Jianyong)

Cluster Reserves: a mechanism for resource management in cluster-based network
servers
M. Aron, P. Druschel, W. Zwaenepoel
Sigmetrics'00
(Jianyong)


Communication/Network Interfaces
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VISA: Netstation's virtual Internet SCSI adapter
R. Meter, G. Finn and S. Hotz
ASPLOS'98.
(Chun)

A real-time upcall facility for protocol processing with QoS guarantees
R. Gopalakrishnan and Guru M. Parulkar
SOSP'95
(Chun)

Lazy receiver processing (LRP): a network subsystem architecture for server systems
Peter Druschel and Gaurav Banga
OSDI'96
(Chun)


Web/Java
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On the scale and performance of cooperative Web proxy caching.
Alec Wolman, M. Voelker, Nitin Sharma, Neal Cardwell, Anna Karlin and Henry M. Levy.
SOSP'99.

Processes in KaffeOS: Isolation, Resource Management, and Sharing in Java
G. Back, W. Hsieh, J. Lepreau
OSDI'00
(Victor)


Energy Issues and Embedded Systems
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Policies for Dynamic Clock Scheduling
D. Grunwald, P. Levis, K. Farkas, C. Morrey, M. Neufeld
OSDI'00
(Sudhanva)

Energy-aware adaptation for mobile applications
Jason Flinn and M. Satyanarayanan
SOSP'99.
(Sudhanva)

EMERALDS: a small-memory real-time microkernel
Khawar M. Zuberi, Padmanabhan Pillai and Kang G. Shin
SOSP'99
(Sudhanva)


Scheduling
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Borrowed-virtual-time (BVT) scheduling: supporting latency-sensitive threads in a general-purpose scheduler
Kenneth J. Duda and David R. Cheriton.
SOSP'99.
(Yanyong)

CPU reservations and time constraints efficient, predictable scheduling of independent activities
Michael B. Jones, Daniela Rosu and Marcel-Ca˘ta˘lin Rosu
SOSP'97.
(Yanyong)

Distributed schedule management in the tiger video fileserver
William J. Bolosky, Robert P. Fitzgerald and John R. Douceur
SOSP'97.
(Yanyong)

Surplus Fair Scheduling: A Proportional Share CPU Scheduling Algorithm
for Symmetric Multiprocessors
A. Chandra, M. Adler, P. Goyal, P. Shenoy.
OSDI'00.
(Yanyong)


Memory Management
=================
Integrating segmentation and paging protection for safe, efficient and transparent software extensions
Tzi-cker Chiueh, Ganesh Venkitachalam and Prashant Pradhan
SOSP'99.

A new page table for 64-bit address spaces
M. Talluri, M. D. Hill and Y. A. Khalidi
SOSP'95
(Gokul)

Potentials and limitations of fault-based Markov prefetching for
virtual memory pages
G. Bartels, A. Karlin, D. Anderson, J. Chase, H. Levy, G. Voelker
Sigmetrics'99.
(Gokul)

A Look at Several Memory management units, TLB-refill mechanisms, and page
table organizations
B. Jacob, T. Mudge
ASPLOS'98
(Gokul)

Segregating heap objects by reference behavior and lifetime
M. L. Seidl, B. Zorn
ASPLOS'98
(Victor)

Optimizing the Idle Task and Other MMU Tricks
Cort Dugan, Paul Mackerras, Victor Yodaiken
OSDI'94


File Systems
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Deciding when to forget in the Elephant file system
Douglas S. Santry, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutchinson, Alistair C. Veitch, Ross W. Carton and Jacob Ofir
SOSP'99

Informed prefetching and caching
R. H. Patterson, G. A. Gibson, E. Ginting, D. Stodolsky and J. Zelenka
SOSP'95
(Ruth)

A trace-driven comparison of algorithms for parallel prefetching and caching
Tracy Kimbrel, Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Brian Bershad, Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Garth A. Gibson, Anna R. Karlin and Kai Li
OSDI'96
(Ruth)

A highly available scalable ITV system
M. N. Nelson, M. Linton and S. Owicki
SOSP'95



Mobilility and Resource Location
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Challenges to Reliable Data Transport over Heterogenous Wireless Networks
H. Balakrishnan,
Ph.D. Thesis, University of California at Berkeley,
August 1998 (now at MIT).
(Charles)

The design and implementation of an intentional naming system
William Adjie-Winoto, Elliot Schwartz, Hari Balakrishnan and Jeremy Lilley
SOSP'99
(Charles)

System Support for Bandwidth Management and Content Adaptation in Internet 
Applications
David Andersen, Deepak Bansal, Dorothy Curtis, Srinivasan Seshan and 
Hari Balakrishnan
OSDI'00
(Charles)

Automated hoarding for mobile computers
Geoffrey H. Kuenning and Gerald J. Popek
SOSP'97

Agile application-aware adaptation for mobility
Brian D. Noble, M. Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Narayanan, James Eric Tilton, Jason Flinn and Kevin R. Walker
SOSP'97

Design and implementation of a distributed virtual machine for networked computers
Emin Gün Sirer, Robert Grimm, Arthur J. Gregory and Brian N. Bershad
SOSP'99