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The Design and Implementation of an Operating System to Support Distributed Multimedia Applications
, 1996
"... Support for multimedia applications by general purpose computing platforms has been the subject of considerable research. Much of this work is based on an evolutionary strategy in which small changes to existing systems are made. The approach adopted here is to start ab initio with no backward compa ..."
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Support for multimedia applications by general purpose computing platforms has been the subject of considerable research. Much of this work is based on an evolutionary strategy in which small changes to existing systems are made. The approach adopted here is to start ab initio with no backward compatibility constraints. This leads to a novel structure for an operating system. The structure aims to decouple applications from one another and to provide multiplexing of all resources, not just the CPU, at a low level. The motivation for this structure, a design based on the structure, and its implementation on a number of hardware platforms is described. I. Introduction G ENERAL purpose multimedia computing platforms should endow text, images, audio and video with equal status: interpreting an audio or video stream should not be a privileged task of special functions provided by the operating system, but one of ordinary user programs. Support for such processing on a platform on which ot...
Maui: Making smartphones last longer with code offload
- In In Proceedings of ACM MobiSys
, 2010
"... This paper presents MAUI, a system that enables fine-grained energy-aware offload of mobile code to the infrastructure. Previous approaches to these problems either relied heavily on programmer support to partition an application, or they were coarse-grained requiring full process (or full VM) migra ..."
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This paper presents MAUI, a system that enables fine-grained energy-aware offload of mobile code to the infrastructure. Previous approaches to these problems either relied heavily on programmer support to partition an application, or they were coarse-grained requiring full process (or full VM) migration. MAUI uses the benefits of a managed code environment to offer the best of both worlds: it supports fine-grained code offload to maximize energy savings with minimal burden on the programmer. MAUI decides at runtime which methods should be remotely executed, driven by an optimization engine that achieves the best energy savings possible under the mobile device’s current connectivity constrains. In our evaluation, we show that MAUI enables: 1) a resource-intensive face recognition application that consumes an order of magnitude less energy, 2) a latency-sensitive arcade game application that doubles its refresh rate, and 3) a voice-based language translation application that bypasses the limitations of the smartphone environment by executing unsupported components remotely.
Building Secure and Reliable Network Applications
, 1996
"... ly, the remote procedure call problem, which an RPC protocol undertakes to solve, consists of emulating LPC using message passing. LPC has a number of "properties" -- a single procedure invocation results in exactly one execution of the procedure body, the result returned is reliably deliv ..."
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ly, the remote procedure call problem, which an RPC protocol undertakes to solve, consists of emulating LPC using message passing. LPC has a number of "properties" -- a single procedure invocation results in exactly one execution of the procedure body, the result returned is reliably delivered to the invoker, and exceptions are raised if (and only if) an error occurs. Given a completely reliable communication environment, which never loses, duplicates, or reorders messages, and given client and server processes that never fail, RPC would be trivial to solve. The sender would merely package the invocation into one or more messages, and transmit these to the server. The server would unpack the data into local variables, perform the desired operation, and send back the result (or an indication of any exception that occurred) in a reply message. The challenge, then, is created by failures. Were it not for the possibility of process and machine crashes, an RPC protocol capable of overcomi...
Extensible security architecture for Java
- In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
, 1997
"... As the World Wide Web has been used to build increasingly complex applications, developers have been constrained by the Web’s static document model. “Active ” content can add simple animations to a page, but it can also transform the Web into a “platform ” for writing and distributing programs. A va ..."
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As the World Wide Web has been used to build increasingly complex applications, developers have been constrained by the Web’s static document model. “Active ” content can add simple animations to a page, but it can also transform the Web into a “platform ” for writing and distributing programs. A variety of mobile code systems such as Java [Gosling et al.
An Architecture for A Wide Area Distributed System
- Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms
, 1996
"... this paper is part of the Globe Project (Globe stands for GLobal Object Based Environment) . The goal of this project is the design and implementation of a wide area distributed system that provides a convenient programming abstraction and full transparency. The main contribution of this paper is th ..."
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this paper is part of the Globe Project (Globe stands for GLobal Object Based Environment) . The goal of this project is the design and implementation of a wide area distributed system that provides a convenient programming abstraction and full transparency. The main contribution of this paper is the description of a new system for distributed shared objects. In contrast to other systems, the implementation of distribution, consistency, and replication of state is completely encapsulated in a distributed shared object. This allows for object-specific solutions, and provides the right mechanism for building efficient and truly scalable systems. 2 Problems to be Solved
Sharing Networked Resources with Brokered Leases
- In Proceedings of the USENIX Technical Conference
, 2006
"... This paper presents the design and implementation of Shirako, a system for on-demand leasing of shared networked resources. Shirako is a prototype of a serviceoriented architecture for resource providers and consumers to negotiate access to resources over time, arbitrated by brokers. It is based on ..."
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This paper presents the design and implementation of Shirako, a system for on-demand leasing of shared networked resources. Shirako is a prototype of a serviceoriented architecture for resource providers and consumers to negotiate access to resources over time, arbitrated by brokers. It is based on a general lease abstraction: a lease represents a contract for some quantity of a typed resource over an interval of time. Resource types have attributes that define their performance behavior and degree of isolation. Shirako decouples fundamental leasing mechanisms from resource allocation policies and the details of managing a specific resource or service. It offers an extensible interface for custom resource management policies and new resource types. We show how Shirako enables applications to lease groups of resources across multiple autonomous sites, adapt to the dynamics of resource competition and changing load, and guide configuration and deployment. Experiments with the prototype quantify the costs and scalability of the leasing mechanisms, and the impact of lease terms on fidelity and adaptation. 1
Migratory Applications
, 1996
"... We introduce a new genre of user interface applications that can migrate from one machine to another, taking their user interface and application contexts with them, and continue from where they left off. Such applications are not tied to one user or one machine, and can roam freely over the netw ..."
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Cited by 97 (5 self)
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We introduce a new genre of user interface applications that can migrate from one machine to another, taking their user interface and application contexts with them, and continue from where they left off. Such applications are not tied to one user or one machine, and can roam freely over the network, rendering service to a community of users, gathering human input and interacting with people. We envisage that this will support many new agent-based collaboration metaphors. The ability to migrate executing programs has applicability to mobile computing as well. Users can
A Survey of Distributed Garbage Collection Techniques
, 1995
"... This paper is organised as follows. Section 2 first introduces our object model. Section 3 describes the reference count-based approach. In particular, we compare those techniques according to their resilience to message failures. Such counting-based techniques are unable to collect cycles of garbag ..."
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This paper is organised as follows. Section 2 first introduces our object model. Section 3 describes the reference count-based approach. In particular, we compare those techniques according to their resilience to message failures. Such counting-based techniques are unable to collect cycles of garbage and must assume that they are rare enough to minimize memory leakage. A number of hybrid proposals as explained in 5 which combine counting-based techniques with a global (tracing-based) technique. Section (explained in Section 6) surveys some enhanced techniques well suited to distributed settings. Section (explained in Section 7) sums up our conclusions and proposes taxonomy of the reviewed techniques. 2 Model
The Structure of a Multi-Service Operating System
, 1995
"... Data Type. A collection of operations, each with a name and a signature defining the number and types of its arguments. application domain A domain whose purpose is to execute an application program. binding An association of a name with some value; in IDC, the local data structures for invoking an ..."
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Data Type. A collection of operations, each with a name and a signature defining the number and types of its arguments. application domain A domain whose purpose is to execute an application program. binding An association of a name with some value; in IDC, the local data structures for invoking an operation on an interface. class A set of objects sharing the same implementation. An object is an instance of exactly one class. closure The concrete realisation of an interface. A record containing two pointers, one to an operation table and the other to a state record. concrete type A data type whose structure is explicit. constructor An operation on an interface which causes the creation of an object, and returns the interfaces exported by the object. context A collection of bindings of names to values. context slot A data structure used to hold processor execution state within a domain. ix domain The entity which is activated by the kernel scheduler. Domains can be thought of a...
