Why TCP timers don't work well
SIGCOMM '86 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM conference on Communications architectures & protocols
SOSP '87 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM Symposium on Operating systems principles
Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Improving round-trip time estimates in reliable transport protocols
SIGCOMM '87 Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Frontiers in computer communications technology
Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Optimistic active messages: a mechanism for scheduling communication with computation
PPOPP '95 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Log-based receiver-reliable multicast for distributed interactive simulation
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Networking support for large scale multiprocessor servers
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Programming with threads
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on workstation clusters and network-based computing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Using Continuations to Build a User-Level Threads Library
USENIX MACH III Symposium
CLAM: Connection-less, Lightweight, and Multiway Communication Support for Distributed Computing
CANPC '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Communication and Architectural Support for Network-Based Parallel Computing
Scalable Timers for Soft State Protocols
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
RMTP: a reliable multicast transport protocol
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
The Reverse C10K Problem for Server-Side Mashups
Service-Oriented Computing --- ICSOC 2008 Workshops
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Precise timing and asynchronous I/O are appealing features for many applications. Unix kernels provide such features on a per-process basis, using signals to communicate asynchronous events to applications. Per-process signals and timers are grossly inadequate for complex multithreaded applications that require per-thread signals and timers that operate at finer granularity. To respond to this need, we present a scheme that integrates asynchronous (Unix) signals with user-level threads, using the A RIADNE system as a platform. This is done with a view towards support for portable, multithreaded, and multiprotocol distributed applications, namely the C LAM (connectionless, lightweight, and multiway) communications library. In the same context, we propose the use of continuations as an efficient mechanism for reducing thread context-switching and busy-wait overheads in multithreaded protocols. Our proposal for integrating timers and signal-handling mechanisms not only solves problems related to race conditions, but also offers an efficient and flexible interface for timing and signalling threads. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.