Advances in Operating Systems, ECE 1759, Fall 2025

Reading List

Historical Perspective

E. W. Dijkstra, The Structure of the 'THE'-Multiprogramming System, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 1968, pp. 341-346.
P. B. Hansen, The Nucleus of a Multiprogramming System, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 13, No. 4, April 1970, pp. 238-241, 250.
D. G. Bobrow, J. D. Burchfiel, D. L. Murphy, and R. S. Tomlinson, TENEX, a Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 3, March 1972, pp. 135-143.

B. Lampson, Protection, Operating Systems Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1974, pp. 18-24.
J. H. Saltzer, Protection and the Control of Information Sharing in Multics, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 17, No. 7, July 1974, pp. 388-402.
W. Wulf, E. Cohen, W. Corwin, A. Jones, R. Levin, C. Pierson, and F. Pollack. HYDRA: The Kernel of a Multiprocessor Operating System, Communications of the ACM. Vol. 17, No. 6, June 1974, pp. 337-344.

Kernel Structure

D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 17, No. 7, July 1974, pp. 365-375.
D. R. Engler, M. F. Kaashoek, and J. O'Toole Jr. Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture For Application-specific Resource Management, Proceedings of the 15th SOSP, December 1995, pp 251-266.
A. Baumann, J. Appavoo, O. Krieger, T. Roscoe, A fork() in the road, In Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'19), May 13-15, 2019, Bertinoro, Italy.

Virtual Memory and OS/Hardware Interaction

H. M. Levy and P. Lipman, "Virtual Memory Management in VAX/VMS", IEEE Computer, Vol. 15, No. 3, March 1982, pp.35-41.
Michael J. Feeley, William E. Morgan, Frederic H. Pighin, Anna R. Karlin, and Henry M. Levy, Implementing Global Memory Management in a Workstation Cluster, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec. 1995, 29(5): 201-212.
Thomas Anderson, Henry Levy, Brian Bershad, and Edward Lazowska. "The Interaction of Architecture and Operating System Design," ACM Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, April 1991.

Distribution

Leslie Lamport, Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System, Communications of the ACM 21(7):558-565, July 1978.
D. R. Cheriton and W. Zwaenepoel, The Distributed V Kernel and its Performance for Diskless Workstations, Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 129-140, November 1983.
Cary G. Gray and David R. Cheriton, Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency, Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Priciples (SOSP), December 1989, Litchfield Park, AZ, USA.

File System

Marshall K. McKusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, and Robert S. Fabry, "A Fast File System for Unix," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 2(3), August 1984, pp. 181-197.
Mendel Rosenblum and John K. Ousterhout, "The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System," Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1991.
Gregory R. Ganger, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Craig A.N. Soules, and Yale N. Patt. "Soft Updates: A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 18, No. 2, May 2000, Pages 127-153.

Scalability

Ben Gamsa, Orran Krieger, Jonathan Appavoo, and Michael Stumm, Tornado: maximizing locality and concurrency in a shared memory multiprocessor operating system, Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation (OSDI), February 1999, Pages 87-100
Tudor David, Rachid Guerraoui, and Vasileios Trigonakis, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Synchronization but Were Afraid to Ask, Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Pages 33-48
Austin T. Clements, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich, Robert Morris, Eddie Kohler, The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors, In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), pp. 1-17, October 2013.

Virtualization

Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, and Mendel Rosenblum, Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors, Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 1997, Saint Malo, France.
Carl A. Waldspurger, Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server, In Proceedings of 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Dec. 2002
Keith Adams and Ole Agesen, A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, October 2006.
[Optional reading] P. Barham, B. Dragovic, K. Fraser, S. Hand, T. Harris, A. Ho, R. Neugebauer, I. Pratt, and A. Warfield, Xen and the Art of Virtualization, In Proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Operating System Principles, October, 2003.

Big Data

Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, OSDI 2004
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels, Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store, SOSP 2007
CLP: Efficient and Scalable Search on Compressed Text Logs. Kirk Rodrigues, Yu Luo, Ding Yuan. In the Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'21). July 14--16, 2021. Pages 183--198. Also read the Uber's Engineering Blog on CLP's deployment.

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Papers TBD