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USENIX
1996
14 years 28 days ago
A Hierarchical Internet Object Cache
: This paper discussesthedesignandperformance of a hierarchical proxy-cache designed to make Internet information systems scale better. The design was motivated by our earlier trac...
Anawat Chankhunthod, Peter B. Danzig, Chuck Neerda...
USENIX
1996
14 years 28 days ago
Supporting Mobility in MosquitoNet
The goal of the MosquitoNet project is to provide continuous Internet connectivity to mobile hosts. Mobile hosts must be able to take advantage of the best network connectivity av...
Mary Baker, Xinhua Zhao, Stuart Cheshire, Jonathan...
USENIX
1993
14 years 28 days ago
Fremont: A System for Discovering Network Characteristics and Problems
In this paper we present an architecture and prototype implementation for discovering key network characteristics, such as hosts, gateways, and topology. The Fremont system uses a...
David C. M. Wood, Sean S. Coleman, Michael F. Schw...
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
SNP: An Interface for Secure Network Programming
SNP provides a high-level abstraction for secure end-toend network communications. It supports both stream and datagram semantics with security guarantees (e.g., data originauthen...
Thomas Y. C. Woo, Raghuram Bindignavle, Shaowen Su...
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Latency Analysis of TCP on an ATM Network
In this paper we characterize the latency of the BSD 4.4 alpha implementation of TCP on an ATM network. Latency reduction is a difficult task, and careful analysis is the first st...
Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Chandramohan A. ...
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Splicing UNIX into a Genome Mapping Laboratory
The Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research is responsible for a number of large genome mapping efforts, the scale of which create problems of data and workflow managem...
Lincoln Stein, Andre Marquis, Robert Dredge, Mary ...
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
Wux: UNIX Tools under Windows
Wux is a port of Unix tools to the Microsoft Windows environment. It is based on a library providing a Unixcompatible set of system calls on top of Windows. Unix-derived tools run...
Diomidis Spinellis
USENIX
1994
14 years 28 days ago
A Usage Profile and Evaluation of a Wide-Area Distributed File System
The evolution of the Andrew File System (AFS) into a wide-area distributed file system has encouraged collaboration and information dissemination on a much broader scale than ever...
Mirjana Spasojevic, Mahadev Satyanarayanan
USENIX
1993
14 years 28 days ago
Faster AFS
Michael T. Stolarchuk