Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Distributed operating systems
Exploring issues of operating systems structuring: from microkernel to extensible systems
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Specifying Distributed Software Architectures
Proceedings of the 5th European Software Engineering Conference
Kea - A Dynamically Extensible and Configurable Operating System Kernel
ICCDS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Components for operating system design
IWOOOS '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems (IWOOOS '96)
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Traditional operating systems limit flexibility, performance and utilization of hardware resources by forcing applications to use inappropriate high-level abstractions, uniform protection schemes and high-level static resource management. This forced use of inappropriate services results in poor application and operating system performance. A radical new approach to operating systems design and construction is needed to meet the requirements of modern applications. Within our Centre, we are designing BITS: the Component Based Operating System, to address these issues.To realize its full potential, BITS requires a radically new resource management strategy. The operating system design gives an environment for implementing extensions, but a resource manager module is responsible for making them available. It allows system services to be specialized, replaced or extended to better serve application-specific needs.In this paper we propose the MAGNET Resource Manager enabling a free-market negotiation of application requests and server resources. It provides an additional level of flexibility for application participation in resource management. MAGNET also provides a platform for an additional runtime level of extensibility: dynamic modification and replacement of its parts during execution.