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USENIX
1994
14 years 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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
1994
14 years 6 days ago
Resolving File Conflicts in the Ficus File System
Ficus is a flexible replication facility with optimistic concurrency control designed to span a wide range of scales and network environments. Optimistic concurrency control provi...
Peter L. Reiher, John S. Heidemann, David Ratner, ...
USENIX
1994
14 years 6 days ago
A Toolkit and Methods for Internet Firewalls
The purpose of an Internet firewall is to provide a point of defense and a controlled and audited access to services, both from within and without an organization
Marcus J. Ranum, Frederick M. Avolio
USENIX
1994
14 years 6 days ago
Acme: A User Interface for Programmers
A hybrid of window system, shell, and editor, Acme gives text-oriented applications a clean, expressive, and consistent style of interaction. Traditional window systems support in...
Rob Pike
USENIX
1994
14 years 6 days ago
A Better Update Policy
y-filled data block results in a delayed write,Abstract while a modification that fills a block results in an immediate, although asynchronous, write. TheSome file systems can dela...
Jeffrey C. Mogul
USENIX
1994
14 years 6 days ago
A Uniform Name Service for Spring's UNIX Environment
The Spring operating system provides a uniform name service that can be used to associate any name with any object independent of the type of object, and allows arbitrary name spa...
Michael N. Nelson, Sanjay R. Radia