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OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
An Integrated Experimental Environment for Distributed Systems and Networks
Three experimental environments traditionally support network and distributed systems research: network emulators, network simulators, and live networks. The continued use of mult...
Brian White, Jay Lepreau, Leigh Stoller, Robert Ri...
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Scale and Performance in the Denali Isolation Kernel
This paper describes the Denali isolation kernel, an operating system architecture that safely multiplexes a large number of untrusted Internet services on shared hardware. Denali...
Andrew Whitaker, Marianne Shaw, Steven D. Gribble
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Cooperative I/O: A Novel I/O Semantics for Energy-Aware Applications
In this paper we demonstrate the benefits of application involvement in operating system power management. We present Coop-I/O, an approach to reduce the power consumption of devi...
Andreas Weissel, Bjórn Beutel, Frank Bellos...
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The Effectiveness of Request Redirection on CDN Robustness
It is becoming increasingly common to construct network services using redundant resources geographically distributed across the Internet. Content Distribution Networks are a prim...
Limin Wang, Vivek S. Pai, Larry L. Peterson
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Using Model Checking to Debug Device Firmware
Device firmware is a piece of concurrent software that achieves high performance at the cost of software complexity. They contain subtle race conditions that make them difficult t...
Sanjeev Kumar, Kai Li
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This paper i...
Carl A. Waldspurger
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
TCP Nice: A Mechanism for Background Transfers
Many distributed applications can make use of large background transfers ? transfers of data that humans are not waiting for ? to improve availability, reliability, latency or con...
Arun Venkataramani, Ravi Kokku, Michael Dahlin
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Scalability and Accuracy in a Large-Scale Network Emulator
Amin Vahdat, Ken Yocum, Kevin Walsh, Priya Mahadev...
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Resource Overbooking and Application Profiling in Shared Hosting Platforms
In this paper, we present techniques for provisioning CPU and network resources in shared hosting platforms running potentially antagonistic third-party applications. The primary ...
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant J. Shenoy, Timothy Rosc...
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Integrated Resource Management for Cluster-based Internet Services
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
Kai Shen, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu