Academic Papers

Academic Papers on Operating System Design

Note that most of these links are to PDF files, some of which can be downloaded directly.

Kernel Design

• 'The Case for Crypto Protocol Awareness in the Kernel' by Burnside and Keromytis, 2006 [Academic Commons link page]

• 'Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management', by Engler, Kaashoek and O’Toole, 1995 [CiteSeer link page]

• 'Improving IPC by Kernel Design' by Liedtke, 1993 [Yale PDF]

• 'Operating System Virtualization: Practice and Experience' by Laadan and Nieh, 2008 [Academic Commons link page]

• 'An Overview of the Synthesis Operating System' by Pu and Massalin, 1989 [Academic Commons link page]

• 'The Protection of Information in Computer Systems' by Saltzer and Schroeder, 1975 [CiteSeer link page]

• 'Protecting Commodity Operating Systems through Strong Kernel Isolation' by Kemerlis, 2015

[Academic Commons link page]

• 'Speculative Execution as an Operating System Service' by Locasto and Keromytis, 2006 [Academic Commons link page]

• 'Synthesis: An Efficient Implementation of Fundamental Operating System Services' by Massalin, 1992 [CiteSeer PDF] [Valerie Aurora HTML]

• 'The Synthesis Kernel' by Pu, Massalin, and Ioannidis, 1987 [USENIX PDF]

• 'Threads and Input/Output in the Synthesis Kernel', by Pu and Massalin, 1989 [Princeton PDF]

File System Design

• 'ChunkFS' by Aurora, 2006 [usenix.org PDF] [usenix.org HTML] [Valerie Aurora PDF]

• 'Improving File System Reliability and Availability with Continuous Checker and Repair' by Gunawi, 2011 [UC Berkeley PDF]

• 'Repair-Driven File System Design' by Aurora, 2006 [Valerie Aurora PDF]

• 'Using Declarative Invariants for Protecting File-System Integrity' Sun, et. al., 2006 [SIGOPS PDF]

Security

• 'Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time' by Paxson, 1999 [CiteSeer link page]

• 'The Protection of Information in Computer Systems' by Saltzer and Schroeder, 1975 [CiteSeer link page]

• 'Protecting Commodity Operating Systems through Strong Kernel Isolation' by Kemerlis, 2015

[Academic Commons link page]

Distributed Systems

• 'An Integrated Experimental Environment for Distributed Systems and Networks', by White et. al., 2002 [CiteSeer link page]

• 'Unreliable Failure Detectors for Reliable Distributed Systems' by Chandra and Toueg, 1996 [CiteSeer link page]

• 'Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems', Mattern, 1988 [CiteSeer link page]

Specific Implementation Techniques

• 'PCLSRing: Keeping Process State Modular', Bawden, 1989 (unpublished draft) hack.org repository