Design of the x-kernel

  • Authors:
  • N. Hutchinson;L. Peterson

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Arizona, Tuscon;Univ. of Arizona, Tuscon

  • Venue:
  • SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The x-kernel is a configurable operating system kernel designed to support experimentation in interprocess communication and distributed programming. The x-kernel's underlying architecture provides a rich set of abstractions that are used to construct and compose communication protocols. The architecture is interesting because the abstractions are both general enough to accommodate a wide range of protocols and efficient enough to provide a useful testbed in which protocol performance can be accurately measured.