Systems Research Seminar

Following is a tentative list of papers from recent conferences:

Virtual Machines

• Architectural support for shadow memory in multiprocessors, Vijay Nagarajan and Rajiv Gupta, VEE 2009
• Memory buddies: Exploiting page sharing for smart colocation in virtualized data centers, Timothy Wood, Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Prashant Shenoy, Peter Desnoyers, Emmanuel Cecchet, and Mark Corner, VEE 2009
• Entropy: A consolidation manager for clusters, Fabien Hermenier, Xavier Lorca, Jean-Marc Menaud, Gilles Muller, and Julia Lawallr, VEE 2009
• Achieving 10Gbps using safe and transparent network interface virtualization, Kaushik Kumar Ram, Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, Alan L Cox, and Scott Rixner, VEE 2009
• Task-aware virtual machine scheduling for I/O performance, Hwanju Kim, Hyeontaek Lim, Jinkyu Jeong, Heeseung Jo, and Joonwon Lee, VEE 2009
• The hybrid scheduling framework for virtual machine systems, Chuliang Weng, Minglu Li, and Xinda Lu, VEE 2009

Power

• ClientVisor: Leverage COTS OS functionalities for power management in virtualized desktop environment, Huacai Chen, Hai Jin, Zhiyuan Shao, Ke Yu, and Kevin Tian, VEE 2009
• Everest: Scaling Down Peak Loads Through I/O Off-Loading, Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Eno Thereska, Sameh Elnikety, and Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom, OSDI 2008
• Quanto: Tracking Energy in Networked Embedded Systems Rodrigo Fonseca, University of California, Berkeley, and Yahoo! Research; Prabal Dutta, University of California, Berkeley; Philip Levis, Stanford University; Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley, OSDI 2008
• Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage, Yuvraj Agarwal, University of California, San Diego; Ranveer Chandra, Steve Hodges, James Scott, and Paramvir Bahl, Microsoft Research; Rajesh Gupta, University of California, San Diego, NSDI 2009
• Skilled in the Art of Being Idle: Reducing Energy Waste in Networked Systems, Sergiu Nedevschi, International Computer Science Institute; Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Research Berkeley; Jaideep Chandrashekar, Intel Research Santa Clara; Bruce Nordman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Nina Taft, Intel Research Berkeley

Wireless

• Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-core Processors, Kun Tan, Jiansong Zhang, and Haitao Wu, Microsoft Research Asia; Fang Ji, Beijing Jiao Tong University; He Liu, Yusheng Ye, and Shen Wang, Tsinghua University; Yongguang Zhang and Wei Wang, Microsoft Research Asia; Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of California, San Diego, NSDI 2009
• Enabling MAC Protocol Implementations on Software-defined Radios, George Nychis, Srinivasan Seshan, Peter Steenkiste, Thibaud Hottelier, and Zhuocheng Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, NSDI 2009
• Wishbone: Profile-based Partitioning for Sensornet Applications Ryan Newton, Sivan Toledo, Lewis Girod, Hari Balakrishnan, and Samuel Madden, MIT CSAIL, NSDI 2009.
• Softspeak: Making VoIP Play Well in Existing 802.11 Deployments Patrick Verkaik, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta, and Alex C. Snoeren, University of California, San Diego, NSDI 2009
• Block-switched Networks: A New Paradigm for Wireless Transport Ming Li, Devesh Agrawal, Deepak Ganesan, Arun Venkataramani, and Himanshu Agrawal, University of Massachusetts Amherst, NSDI 2009

Content Distribution

• AntFarm: Efficient Content Distribution with Managed Swarms, Ryan S. Peterson and Emin Güer, Cornell Universityy, NSDI 2009
• HashCache: Cache Storage for the Next Billion, Anirudh Badam, KyoungSoo Park, Vivek S. Pai, and Larry L. Peterson, Princeton University, NSDI 2009

Fault Tolerance

• CuriOS: Improving Reliability through Operating System Structure, Francis M. David, Ellick M. Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, and Roy H. Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig, OSDI 2008
• Tolerating Latency in Replicated State Machines Through Client Speculation Benjamin Wester, University of Michigan; James Cowling, MIT CSAIL; Edmund B. Nightingale, Microsoft Research; Peter M. Chen and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan; Barbara Liskov, MIT CSAIL, NSDI 2009
• Making Byzantine Fault Tolerant Systems Tolerate Byzantine Faults, Lorenzo Alvisi, Allen Clement, and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin; Mirco Marchetti, University of Mondena and Reggio Emilia; Edmund Wong, The University of Texas at Austin, NSDI 2009
• Zeno: Eventually Consistent Byzantine Fault Tolerance, Atul Singh, MPI-SWS and Rice University; Pedro Fonseca, Petr Kuznetsov, and Rodrigo Rodrigues, MPI-SWS; Petros Maniatis, Intel Research Berkeley, NSDI 2009

Multi-Core

• Corey: An Operating System for Many Cores, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, and Yandong Mao, Fudan University; Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, and Aleksey Pesterev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lex Stein and Ming Wu, Microsoft Research Asia; Yuehua Dai, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Yang Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, OSDI 2008

Storage

• Transactional Flash, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, and Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, OSDI 2008

Miscellaneous

• Redline: First Class Support for Interactivity in Commodity Operating Systems, Ting Yang, Tongping Liu, and Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Scott F. Kaplan, Amherst College; J. Eliot B. Moss, University of Massachusetts Amherst, OSDI 2008

Papers from OSR Special Issue on Research and developments in the Linux kernel

	ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review   archive Volume 42 ,  Issue 5  (July 2008) Research and developments in the Linux kernel   Additional Information: full citation Front matter Pdf Front matter (Cover, TOC) Back matter Pdf Back matter (Ads, Member appl., Back cover)
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	Minding the gap: R&D in the Linux kernel Muli Ben-Yehuda, Eric Van Hensbergen, Marc Fiuczynski Pages 1-3 Full text available: Pdf(586 KB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	Introducing technology into the Linux kernel: a case study Paul E. McKenney, Jonathan Walpole Pages 4-17 Full text available: Pdf(1.05 MB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	Extending futex for kernel to user notification Helge Bahmann, Konrad Froitzheim Pages 18-26 Full text available: Pdf(991 KB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	Plan 9 authentication in Linux Ashwin Ganti Pages 27-33 Full text available: Pdf(1.08 MB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	Towards achieving fairness in the Linux scheduler Chee Siang Wong, Ian Tan, Rosalind Deena Kumari, Fun Wey Pages 34-43 Full text available: Pdf(909 KB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	I/O resource management through system call scheduling Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Harald Röck Pages 44-54 Full text available: Pdf(855 KB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	PipesFS: fast Linux I/O in the unix tradition Willem de Bruijn, Herbert Bos Pages 55-63 Full text available: Pdf(962 KB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	CUBIC: a new TCP-friendly high-speed TCP variant Sangtae Ha, Injong Rhee, Lisong Xu Pages 64-74 Full text available: Pdf(1.28 MB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	On the design of a new Linux readahead framework WU Fengguang, XI Hongsheng, XU Chenfeng Pages 75-84 Full text available: Pdf(1.57 MB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	Practical techniques for purging deleted data using liveness information David Boutcher, Abhishek Chandra Pages 85-94 Full text available: Pdf(1.02 MB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	virtio: towards a de-facto standard for virtual I/O devices Rusty Russell Pages 95-103 Full text available: Pdf(754 KB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms
	Virtual servers and checkpoint/restart in mainstream Linux Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Eric W. Biederman, Serge Hallyn, Daniel Lezcano Pages 104-113 Full text available: Pdf(865 KB) Additional Information: full citation, abstract, references, index terms