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SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
QoS for internet services: done right
In this paper we argue that the best approach to providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to current Internet services is to use admission control and traffic shaping techni...
Josep M. Blanquer, Antoni Batchelli, Klaus E. Scha...
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Constructing component-based extension interfaces in legacy systems code
Implementing an extension of a legacy operating system requires knowing what functionalities the extension should provide and how the extension should be integrated with the legac...
Gilles Muller, Julia L. Lawall, Jean-Marc Menaud, ...
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Using AOP to develop architectural-neutral operating system components
The architecture of an operating system, e.g. micro kernel or monolithic kernel, is usually seen as something static. Even during the long lasting evolution of operating system co...
Olaf Spinczyk, Daniel Lohmann
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The firecracker protocol
We propose the Firecracker protocol for data dissemination in wireless sensor networks. Firecracker uses a combination of routing and broadcasts to rapidly deliver a piece of data...
Philip Levis, David E. Culler
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A sledgehammer approach to reuse of legacy device drivers
Device drivers account for the majority of an operating system’s code base, and reuse of the existing driver infrastructure is a pragmatic requirement of any new OS project. New...
Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Running on the bare metal with GeekOS
Undergraduate operating systems courses are generally taught e of two approaches: abstract or concrete. In the approach, students learn the concepts underlying operating systems t...
David Hovemeyer, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Bobby B...
ITICSE
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Teaching operating systems administration with user mode linux
User Mode Linux is a virtual machine running on a GNULinux operating system. It is the right choice for teaching operating systems’ administration, as it does not need any dedic...
Renzo Davoli
VLDB
2005
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
iMeMex: Escapes from the Personal Information Jungle
Modern computer work stations provide thousands of applications that store data in >100.000 files on the file system of the underlying OS. To handle these files data process...
Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Do...
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Accessing X Applications over the World-Wide Web
Abstract. The X Protocol, an asynchronous network protocol, was developed at MIT amid the need to provide a network transparent graphical user interface primarily for the UNIX Oper...
Arno Puder, Siddharth Desai
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A traffic model for the Xbox game Halo 2
This paper analyses the traffic characteristics of, and proposes a traffic model for, the Xbox game Halo 2. Our goal is to help players and network providers to estimate the amoun...
Sebastian Zander, Grenville J. Armitage