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1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 6-11, 1999
Monterey, California, USA

REFEREED PAPERS TRACK

Wednesday, June 9

Resource Management
Session Chair: Bob Gray, Boulder Labs

Implementing Lottery Scheduling: Matching the Specializations in Traditional Schedulers
David Petrou, Carnegie Mellon University; John W. Milford, NERSC; Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University
Format: PDF / PostScript

Retrofitting Quality of Service into a Time-Sharing Operating System
John Bruno, José Brustoloni, Eran Gabber, Banu Özden, and Abraham Silberschatz, Lucent Technologies--Bell Laboratories
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Adaptive Modem Connection Lifetimes
Fred Douglis and Tom Killian, AT&T Labs--Research
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

File Systems
Session Chair: Orran Krieger, IBM, Inc.

Operation-based Update Propagation in a Mobile File System
Yui-Wah Lee and Kwong-Sak Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Extending File Systems Using Stackable Templates
Erez Zadok, Ion Badulescu, and Alex Shender, Columbia University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Why Does File System Prefetching Work?
Elizabeth Shriver and Christopher Small, Lucent Technologies--Bell Labs; Keith A. Smith, Harvard University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Virtual Memory
Session Chair: Yoon-Ho Park, IBM

The Region Trap Library: Handling Traps on Application-Defined Regions of Memory
Tim Brecht, University of Waterloo; Harjinder Sandhu, York University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

The Case for Compressed Caching in Virtual Memory Systems
Paul R. Wilson, Scott F. Kaplan, and Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Texas at Austin
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

The UVM Virtual Memory System
Charles D. Cranor and Gurudatta M. Parulkar, Washington University, St. Louis
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Thursday, June 10

Tools and Platforms
Session Chair: Anthony LaMarca, Xerox PARC

Lightweight Structured Text Processing
Robert C. Miller and Brad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

SBOX: Put CGI Scripts in a Box
Lincoln D. Stein, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

The MultiSpace: An Evolutionary Platform for Infrastructural Services
Steven D. Gribble, Matt Welsh, Eric A. Brewer, and David Culler, University of California at Berkeley
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Web Servers
Session Chair: Gary McGraw, Reliable Software Technologies

Web++: A System for Fast and Reliable Web Service
Radek Vingralek and Yuri Breitbart, Lucent Technologies--Bell Laboratories; Mehmet Sayal and Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Efficient Support for P-HTTP in Cluster-Based Web Servers
Mohit Aron, Peter Druschel, and Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server
Vivek S. Pai, Peter Druschel, and Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Caching
Session Chair: Christopher Small, Lucent Technologies--Bell Labs

NewsCache--A High-Performance Cache Implementation for Usenet News
Thomas Gschwind and Manfred Hauswirth, Technische Universität Wien
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Reducing the Disk I/O of Web Proxy Server Caches
Carlos Maltzahn and Kathy J. Richardson, Compaq Computer Corporation; Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

An Implementation Study of a Detection-Based Adaptive Block Replacement Scheme
Jongmoo Choi, Seoul National University; Sam H. Noh, Hong-Ik University; Sang Lyul Min and Yookun Cho, Seoul National University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Friday, June 11

Operating Systems Structure
Session Chair: Wu-chi Feng, Ohio State University

A Scalable and Explicit Event Delivery Mechanism for UNIX
Gaurav Banga, Network Appliance Inc.; Jeffrey C. Mogul, Compaq Computer Corp., Western Research Lab.;
Peter Druschel, Rice University
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

The Pebble Component-Based Operating System
Eran Gabber, Christopher Small, John Bruno, José Brustoloni, and Avi Silberschatz, Lucent Technologies--Bell Laboratories
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Linking Programs in a Single Address Space
Luke Deller and Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

Storage Systems
Session Chair: Mirjana Spasojevic, Hewlett-Packard Labs

The Design and Implementation of a DCD Device Driver for UNIX
Tycho Nightingale, University of Rhode Island; Yiming Hu, University of Cincinnati; Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript

An Application-Aware Data Storage Model
Todd A. Anderson and James Griffioen, University of Kentucky
Format: HTML / PDF / PostScript