Garbage collection in an uncooperative environment
Software—Practice & Experience
Making paths explicit in the Scout operating system
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Extensible security architectures for Java
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Defending against denial of service attacks in Scout
OSDI '99 Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Liquid Software: A New Paradigm for Networked Systems
Liquid Software: A New Paradigm for Networked Systems
System design of active basestations based on dynamically reconfigurable hardware
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Design Automation Conference
An Architecture for Application Layer Routing
IWAN '00 Proceedings of the Second International Working Conference on Active Networks
MVSS: Multi-View Storage System
ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 5th conference on Computing frontiers
Dual-Mode Execution Environment for active network
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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Computer network research has recently focused on the feasibility of running mobile code on the intermediate nodes that forward packets through a network. A network that exploits mobile code in this way is called an active network because the network's packet delivery service is programmable, rather than fixed. Active networking is just one example of a class of systems that exploit liquid software--low-level, communication-oriented code that easily flows from machine to machine. This article describes a Java-based platform for liquid software, called Joust, that is specifically designed to support low-level, communication-oriented systems and to avoid the limitations of general- purpose OSs. The authors contrast the platform requirements for communication- oriented liquid software with those of computation-oriented software, identify the limitations of current platforms, and outline the benefits of Joust. They also offer an overview of Scout (the underlying OS upon which Joust is built), its runtime system, and its just-in-time (JIT) compiler.