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Agile Objects Research Areas and References

These issues are all interrelated and only separated for the purposes of clear articulation. Initial assignment of students to "interest areas" is subject to change, but please go with this as a starting point for collecting references.

High Performance RPC (Oolan:Leader, Tony)

Note: since some of these papers are old, they may not be on the web at all.

Fast Communications:

Fbufs: {A} High-Bandwidth Cross-Domain Transfer Facility. Peter Druschel and Larry L. Peterson, In proceedings of the 14^th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec'93

Fast RPC Papers:

Fast RPC on the SHRIMP Virtual Memory Mapped Network Interface
RPC in the x-Kernel: Evaluating New Design Techniques. Hutchinson, Peterson, Abbot, and O'Malley (hard copy)
The Peregrine High-performance RPC System. David B. Johnson and Willy Zwaenepoel, Software: Practice and Experience, Vol 23, No.2. 1993
Performance of Firefly RPC. Michael D. Schroeder and Michael Burrows (hard copy)
Lightweight Remote Procedure Call. B.Bershad, E. Lazowska , TOCS'92 et al.(hard copy)

Fast DCOM Papers:

Harnessing User-Level Networking Architectures for Distributed Object Computing over High-Speed Networks. R. Sankaran, C. Pu, and H. Shah
High Performance Sockets and RPC over Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture. H. Shah, C. Pu, R.Sankaran. Usenix 98
Measuring the Performance of Communication Middleware on High-Speed Networks. A. Gokhale and D. C. Schmidt

Fast RMI Papers (relevant Java literature on RMI, marshalling, etc. (Henri Bal's group)):

An Efficient Implementation of Java's Remote Method Invocation, J. Maassen, R. Nieuwpoort, R. Veldema, H. E. Bal, and A. Plaat. PPoPP'99

Java/Corba3 papers [Discuss on 2/24/99]:

Migratable Objects (Runtimes), Dynamic Management, and Decentralized Object Services (I/O, Naming, etc.) (Phil and Luis: Leaders, Paff, Sudha, Oolan)

The Coign Automatic Distributed Partitioning System. G. Hunt, M. Scott. MSR-TR-98-40

Balzer Component Instrumentation (ISI):

WebOS Papers (Vahdat, Anderson):

UFO(Schauser's)

Plan 9 (AT&T)

Legion, Globus papers:

Reconfigurability:

Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility. B. Noble et al.Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems and Priniciples, Saint-Malo, France, 5-8 October, 1997

Performance Stability and Performance Engineerable Distributed Applications (integrating real-time frameworks with Migratable Agile Objects) (Kay:Leader, Luis, others?)

Open Real-Time Systems papers:

General:

"A Soft Real-time scheduling Server on the Windows NT", Lin, Chu and Nahrstedt in the Proceedings of the 2^nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium, 1998.
"CPU Reservation and Time Contraints: Efficient, Predictable Scheduling of Independent Activities", Jones, Rosu and Rosu in Proceedings of the 16^th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1997.
Optional for additional background: "An open environment for real-time applications" , Deng, Liu, Zhang, Seri and Frei

Real-time extension to Windows NT:

WinNT as a real-time OS?

RTX: "The RTX Real-Time Subsytem for Windows NT", Carpenter, Roman, Vasilatos and Zimmerman
Dreams: "Dreams in a Nutshell" , Sommer
"Windows NT Real-Time Extensions: better or worse?", RTOS evaluation

Co-allocation:

Performance engineering papers:

Challenging scenarios:

Interface Elusiveness and Signature Mutation for Security (Kay:Leader, Geta, others?)

IDL Compiler Papers:

Flick: A Flexible, Optimizing IDL Compiler. Eric Eide, Kevin Frei, Bryan Ford, Jay Lepreau,Gary Lindstrom. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 1997.
Java IDL (part of the online Java Development Kit Documentation).

Dynamic Invocation Interfaces:

The Performance of the CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interface and Dynamic Skeleton Interface over High-Speed ATM Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM ’96 Conference.
Java RMI bootstrap

Security Interfaces for Distributed Objects:

General Security Papers:

Cryptography A-2-Z
Computer Immunology. Stephanie Forrest, Steven Hofmeyr, Anil Somayaji. In Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 88-96 (1997).

Impact of High Performance RPC on Highly Available Systems (Phil, Paff, Tony, Oolan [possible])

Dynamic Replication Papers:

"Replication Management using the state-machine approach," F. Schneider, in Distributed Systems (S. Mullender, ed.),
ch. 7, pp. 169-198. Addison-Wesley, second ed., 1993.
Semi-Passive Replication, X. Défago, A. Schiper and N. Sergent, The 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October 20-23, 1998, West Lafayette, Indiana

Group Message Ordering Protocols:
Horus, a flexible Group Communication System, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman and Silvano Maffeis,
Communications of the ACM, April 1996.
Totem: A Fault-Tolerant Multicast Group Communication System, L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, D. A. Agarwal, R. K. Budhia, and C. A. Lingley-Papadopoulos, Communications of the ACM, April 1996.

Marzullo Method Logging Papers (is this relevant?):