Seminar on Systems Design and Implementation (SDI)

Winter Quarter 2001

• Schedule
• Conferences
• Papers & Topics
• SDI Seminar Fall Quarter 2000

• IWAN 1999 (bib) 2000
• Usenix
• USITS
• SIGMETRICS
• SOSP
• Hot-OS
• OSDI
• Usenix Security
• ASPLOS: ACM, IX, VIII, VII
• OOPSLA

• "Object-Oriented Real-Time Concurrency"
  Peter A. Buhr, Ashif S. Harji, Philipp E. Lim, and Jiongxiong Chen
  OOPSLA 2000, paper
  little OO, lots of RT
• EDN online database, commercial systems; also articles in Feb 2000 issue "Real-time software reigns in post-PC products", UCSB lib call number: TK 1 E267
• Embedded Systems Conference
• "EMERALDS: a small-memory real-time microkernel"
  Khawar M. Zuberi, Padmanabhan Pillai, Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan)
  SOSP 99; paper at citeseer in pdf, and somewhere else as ps.gz

Traditional OS, Java OS

• "Journaling Versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems"
  Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University; Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University; M. Kirk McKusick, Author & Consultant; Keith A. Smith, Harvard University; Craig A. N. Soules, Carnegie Mellon University; Christopher A. Stein, Harvard University
  Usenix 00
• "Application Isolation in the Java Virtual Machine"
  Grzegorz Czajkowski; Sun Microsystems
  OOPSLA 2000; ACM (subscription required); let me know if you find it online
  Paper along the lines of last year's presentation (Techniques for the Design of Java Operating Systems) - this one uses replication of static fields for isolation. Implementation of two systems: one bytecode modifier, one runtime adaption (KVM for PalmOS).
• "Borrowed-Virtual-Time (BVT) Scheduling: Supporting Latency-sensitive Threads in a General-purpose Scheduler."
  K. J. Duda, D. R. Cheriton.
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1999. ps
• "Self-Paging in the Nemesis Operating System"
  Steven M. Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
  OSDI 99

Web and Networking

• "The Session Initiation Protocol: Providing Advanced Telephony Services Across the Internet"
  Henning Schulzrinne and Jonathan Rosenberg
  Bell Labs Technical Journal, Vol. 3, November/December 1998.
  pdf, ps, and more on SIP.
• "Multicast Routing with Bandwidth Guarantees: A New Approach Using Multicast Network Flow,"
  Murali S. Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies, Sudipta Sengupta, MIT
  SIGMETRICS 00
• "Fine-Grained Failover Using Connection Migration"
  Alex C. Snoeren, David G. Andersen and Hari Balakrishnan
  Technical Report, USITS 2001, September 2000. 13 pages. paper
• "TCP-friendly Congestion Control for Real-time Streaming Applications"
  Deepak Bansal and Hari Balakrishnan
  Technical Report, MIT-LCS-TR-806, May 2000. 14 pages. paper
  suggestion of a different TCP-window adaption algorithm; maybe you prefer to read this instead:
• "Binomial Congestion Control Algorithms"
  Deepak Bansal and Hari Balakrishnan
  Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Conf., Anchorage, AK, April 2001. paper
  
• "System Support for Bandwidth Management and Content Adaptation in Internet Applications"
  David G. Andersen, Deepak Bansal, Dorothy Curtis, Srinivasan Seshan, and Hari Balakrishnan
  Proc. 4th USENIX OSDI Conf., San Diego, CA, October 2000. paper
• "Scalable Web Caching of Frequently Updated Objects using Reliable Multicast"
  Dan Li and David R. Cheriton, Stanford University
  USITS 99; paper, and again at citeseer.
• "On the Performance of TCP Splicing for URL-Aware Redirection"
  Ariel Cohen, Sampath Rangarajan, and Hamilton Slye, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
  USITS 99. paper

Hardware Performance

• "Efficient Performance Prediction for Modern Microprocessors,"
  David Ofelt, John Hennessy, Stanford University
  SIGMETRICS 00
• "Quantifying the Energy Consumption of a Pocket Computer and a Java Virtual Machine,"
  Jason Flinn, Carnegie Mellon University, Godmar Back, University of Utah, Jennifer Anderson, Keith Farkas, Compaq's Western Research Lab., Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado
  SIGMETRICS 00

Misc

• "Adaptive Optimization in the Jalapeno JVM"
  Matthew Arnold, Stephen Fink, David Grove, Michael Hind, Peter F. Sweeney; IBM Watson & Rutgers
  OOPSLA 2000; let me know if you find it online
  If you ever thought a JVM is simply an interpreter: read this. Paper has lots of systems design considerations. Extensible system for online feedback-directed optimization.
• "Polynomial and Adaptive Long-lived (2k-1)-Renaming"
  H. Attiya and A. Fouren
  DISC 2000. (Best student paper) ps.gz, DISC 2000.
  pretty theoretical paper about unique names for processes in distributed systems
• "Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems"
  Gaurav Banga, Peter Druschel, Rice University; Jeffrey C. Mogul, Western Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corp.
  OSDI 99
• "Communicating Chameleons"
  John Guttag
  Scientific American, August 1999. article
  interesting article about how to use software to control radio receivers/transmitters - for presentation not sufficient, make a survey of related work for example
• "ETI Resource Distributor: Guaranteed Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Multimedia Systems"
  Miche Baker-Harvey, Equator Technologies, Inc.
  OSDI 99
• "Signaled Receiver Processing"
  Jose Brustoloni, Eran Gabber, Abraham Silberschatz, and Amit Singh, Lucent Technologies-Bell Laboratories
  Usenix 00; ps.gz.