This page is intended to keep a list of all the papers/documents related to my research stuff.

On high resolution timers

• we_are_not_getting_any_younger.pdf: "We are not getting any younger: A new approach to timekeeping and timers" - John Stultz, Linux Symposium 2005, Ottawa, Canada.

• hrtimers.pdf: "Hrtimers and Beyond: Transforming the Linux Time Subsystems" - Thomas Gleixner, Linux Symposium 2006, Ottawa Canada.

On real time systems

• soft-timers.pdf: "Soft timers: efficient microsecond software timer support for network processing", by M. Aron, P. Druschel, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2000, 197--228.

• goel02firmtimers.pdf: "Supporting time-sensitive applications on general-purpose operating systems", by A. Goel, L. Abeni, C. Krasic, J. Snow, J. Walpole, Proceedings of Fifth USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Dec 2002

On scheduling algorithms

• bvt.pdf: "Borrowed-Virtual-Time (BVT) scheduling: supporting latency-sensitive threads in a general-purpose scheduler", Kenneth J. Duda, David R. Cheriton Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1999.

• mdn-mmcn04.pdf: "Missed Deadline Notification in Best-effort Schedulers", Scott Banachowski, Joel Wu, Scott A. Brandt, MMCN 2004

• zeldovichasync-mp.pdf: "Multiprocessor Support for Event-Driven Programs", Nickolai Zeldovich, Alexander Yip, Frank Dabek, Robert T. Morris, David Mazieres, Frans Kaashoek. In Proceedings of the USENIX 2003.

• http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/research/multimedia/

• sosp97_fordist.pdf: Jason Nieh and Monica S. Lam, "The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of SMART: A Scheduler for Multimedia Applications", Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Saint-Malo, France, October 5-8, 1997, pp. 184-197.

• p233-nieh.pdf: Jason Nieh and Monica S. Lam, "SMART: A Processor Scheduler for Multimedia Applications", Abstract in Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Copper Mountain, CO, December 3-5, 1995, p. 233.

• nieh01virtualtime.pdf: Virtual-Time Round-Robin: An O(1) Proportional Share Scheduler (2001), Jason Nieh, Chris Vaill, Hua Zhong

• etsion03humancentered.pdf: Human-Centered Scheduling of Interactive and Multimedia Applications on a Loaded Desktop (2003), Y. Etsion, D. Tsafrir, D. G. Feitelson

• rau99adaptive.pdf: M. A. Rau and E. Smirni, "Adaptive CPU scheduling policies for mixed multimedia and best-effort workloads ". In Modeling, Anal. & Simulation of Comput. & Telecomm. Syst., pp. 252--261, October 1999.