DSL Library

Technical Documents and Research Literature

• "A Host Interface Architecture and Implementation for ATM Networks" , C. Brendan S. Traw, May 1992 MSE
• "Hardware/Software Organization of a High Performance ATM Host Interface" , C. Brendan S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith
• "The AURORA Gigabit Testbed", David J. Farber, Jonathan M. Smith, et. al.
• "Exploiting Parallelism in Hardware Implementation of the DES", Albert G. Broscius, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Developing Device Drivers for Character-Class MCA 6 Adapters in AIX Version 3", Michael Massa
• "Mirage: A Model for Latency in Communication - A Proposal for Dissertation Research," Joseph D. Touch, U. Penn. MS-CIS-90-74, DSL-3, Oct. 1990.
• "On Call Migration", Ming Chit Tam, David J. Farber
• "A Resource-Based Prioritized Bisimulation for Real-Time Systems", Insup Lee, April 22, 1992
• "Reducing Host Load, Network Load, and Latency in a Distributed Shared Memory", David J. Farber, Ronald G. Minnich (Alternate version)
• "Host Interfacing at a Gigabit", C. Brendan S. Traw, April 22, 1993
• "Hardware/Software Organization of a High Performance ATM Host Interface", C. Brendan S. Traw , Jonathan M. Smith
• "Operating Systems Support for End-to-End Gbps Networking" C. Brendan S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Giving Applications Access to Gb/s Networking", C. Brendan S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Cryptographic Support in a Gigabit Network", C. Brendan S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith, David J. Farber
• "Mirage: A Model for Ultra High-Speed Protocol Analysis and Design," Joseph D. Touch and David J. Farber, Proc. of the IFIP WG 6.1/WG 6.4 Workshop on Protocols for High-Speed Networks, Zurich, May 911 1989 (also U. Penn. MS-CIS-89-79, DSL-1).
• "The Mether System: Distributed Shared Memory for SunOS 4.0", David J. Farber, Ronald G. Minnich
• "Replication and Reduction in Multistage Interconnection Networks," Joseph D. Touch and David J. Farber, Univ. of Penn. Dept. of CIS Technical Report MS-CIS-89-80, DSL-2, Dec. 1989.
• "Replication and Reduction in Multistage Interconnection Networks," Joseph D. Touch and David J. Farber, May, 1991.
• "The Software Design Laboratory", Jonathan M. Smith
• "The Aurora Testbed 1990 Annual Review
• "An Overview of the Aurora Gigabit Testbed", David J. Farber, Jonathan M. Smith
• "On Call Migration", Ming Chit Tam, David J. Farber
• "An Integrated Multimedia Architecture for High-Speed Networks", Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Illustrations of the Aurora Gigabit Testbed", Jonathan M. Smith
• "Analysis of Dynamic Congestion Control Protocols - A Fokker-Planck Approximation", Amarnath Mukherjee, John C. Strikwerda
• "Embedding High Speed ATM in Unix IP", D. Scott Alexander, C. Brendan S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Implementation and Performance of an ATM Host Interface for Workstations", C. Brendan S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Exploratory Research in Telerobotic Control using ATM Networks", Ruzena Bajcsy, Jonathan M. Smith
• "CapNet - A Gigabit Wide Area Backplane That Supports Mobile Data Objects", Ming Chit Tam, David J. Farber, July 12, 1994
• "Revision of QoS Guarantees at the Application / Network Interface", Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Reducing Host Load, Network Load, and Latency in a Distributed Shared Memory", David J. Farber
• "Experimental Evaluation of an ATM Host Interface", C. Brendan S. Traw, Jonathan M. Smith
• "Traffic Characteristics of a Distributed Memory System", Jonathan M. Smith, David J. Farber
• "Experimental Evaluation of a Video Capture Board for Networked Workstations", Sanjay Kumar Udani, May 1992
• "Network Sevice Customization: An End-Point Perspective", Klara Nahrstedt, December 1993
• "Experiment Study of End-to-End Issues", Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, February 1994
• "Resource Management in Multimedia Networked Systems", IEEE Computer, Klara Nahrstedt, Ralf Steinmetz, May 1995. (Alternate Version)
• "An Application Approach to Networked Multimedia Systems" (text) and "An Application Approach to Networked Multimedia Systems" (figures), Proceedings from the 18th Conference on Local Computer Networks, Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, September 1993
• "End-Point Resource Admission Control for Remote Control Multimedia Applications" Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, MS-CIS-95-18, University of Pennsylvania, April 1995.
• "QoS Negotiation in a Robotics Environment", Proceedings of a Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Applications and Quality of Service Verification, Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, June 1994
• "A Service Kernel for Multimedia Endstations", Proceedings IWACA, Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, September 1994
• "The QoS Broker", IEEE Multimedia, Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, Spring 1995
• "Designing Very Large Content-Addressable Memories" , John H. Shaffer
• "Architecture and Performance of the Mether Network Shared Memory", John H. Shaffer, Jonathan M. Smith, Ronald G. Minnich
• "Experimental Evaluation of Distributed Shared Memory on a High Speed WAN", John H. Shaffer, Jonathan M. Smith, Ronald G. Minnich.
• "The Effects of High Bandwidth Networks on Wide-Area Distributed Systems", John H. Shaffer, April 1995.
• "An Experiment in Latency Reduction," Joseph D. Touch and David J. Farber, IEEE Infocom, Toronto, June 1994, pp. 175-181 (also ISI/RS-95-403). Also available in PostScript.
• "Reducing Latency in Communication," Joseph D. Touch and David J. Farber, Letter to the editor IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 2, Feb. 1993, pp. 8-9.
• "Mirage: A Model for Latency in Communication," Joseph D. Touch, Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. of Penn, MS-CIS-92-42, DSL-11, Jan. 1992. Available by chapter, also as PostScript (Overview)

  Chapter 1: Introduction	Also in PostScript.
  Chapter 2: The Mirage Model	Also in PostScript.
  Chapter 3: Prior Work	Also in PostScript.
  Chapter 4: A Mirage of NTP	Also in PostScript.
  Chapter 5: MicroNet	Also in PostScript.
  Chapter 6: MicroNet Under a MicroScope	Also in PostScript.
  Chapters 7,8: Conclusions, Bibliography	Also in PostScript.
  Appendices A-F	Also in PostScript.

• "An Active Instruction Decoding Processor-Memory Interface," Joseph D. Touch and David J. Farber, #5,353,419, Univ. of Penn., Sept. 1991 (granted Oct. 4, 1994).
• "A Secure and Reliable Bootstrap Architecture," William A. Arbaugh, David J. Farber, Jonathan M. Smith, Univ. of Penn. Dept. of CIS Technical Report MS-CIS-96-35.
• "Operating System Support for Protocol Boosters" A. Mallet, J. D. Chung, Jonathan M. Smith, HIPPARCH Workshop, June 1997. (Experimental Software)
• "A Survey of Active Network Research" David L. Tennenhouse, Jonathan M. Smith, W. David Sincoskie, David J. Wetherall, Gary J. Minden.
• "Design, Implementation and experiences of the OMEGA Architecture" Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, MS-CIS-95-22, University of Pennsylvania, May 1995.
• "Implementation Notes to OMEGA Architecture", Klara Nahrstedt, MS-CIS-95-28, CIS Department, University of Pennsylvania, July 1995.
• Klara Nahrstedt, An Architecture for End-to-End Quality of Service Provision and its Experimental Validation, PhD Thesis, Computer Information Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, July 1995. (Pages 1-149) (Page 150) (Page 151) (Page 152) (Page 153) (Pages 154-194)
• Hyogon Kim and David Farber. A new congestion control framework for large bandwidth-delay product networks. June, 1995.
• Hyogon Kim. A Non-Feedback Congestion Control Framework for High-Speed Data Networks. UPenn PhD Thesis, 1995.

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