14. SOSP 1993: Asheville, North Carolina

Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, December 5-8, 1993, The Grove Park Inn and Country Club, Asheville, North Carolina, Operating System Review 27(5), ACM Press, 1993, ISBN 0-89791-632-8

File Systems

Yousef Y. A. Khalidi, Michael N. Nelson: Extensible File Systems in Spring. 1-14
Wiebren de Jonge, M. Frans Kaashoek, Wilson C. Hsieh: The Logical Disk: A New Approach to Improving File Systems. 15-28
John H. Hartman, John K. Ousterhout: The Zebra Striped Network File System. 29-43

Models of Distributed System

David R. Cheriton, Dale Skeen: Understanding the Limitations of Causally and Totally Ordered Communication. 44-57
Brian M. Oki, Manfred Pflügl, Alex Siegel, Dale Skeen: The Information Bus - An Architecture for Extensible Distributed Systems. 58-68

System Structure

Graham Hamilton, Michael L. Powell, James G. Mitchell: Subcontract: A Flexible Base for Distributed Programming. 69-79
Michael B. Jones: Interposition Agents: Transparently Interposing User Code at the System Interface. 80-93
Carl Hauser, Christian Jacobi, Marvin Theimer, Brent B. Welch, Mark Weiser: Using Threads in Interactive Systems: A Case Study. 94-105

Performance

Antony L. Hosking, J. Eliot B. Moss: Protection Traps and Alternatives for Memory Management of an Object-Oriented Language. 106-119
J. Bradley Chen, Brian N. Bershad: The Impact of Operating System Structure on Memory System Performance. 120-133
Sharon E. Perl, William E. Weihl: Performance Assertion Checking. 134-145

Persistent Storage

Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Henry H. Mashburn, Puneet Kumar, David C. Steere, James J. Kistler: Lightweight Recoverable Virtual Memory. 146-160
James O'Toole, Scott Nettles, David K. Gifford: Concurrent Compacting Garbage Collection of a Persistent Heap. 161-174

Communication

Jochen Liedtke: Improving IPC by Kernel Design. 175-188
Peter Druschel, Larry L. Peterson: Fbufs: A High-Bandwidth Cross-Domain Transfer Facility. 189-202
Robert Wahbe, Steven Lucco, Thomas E. Anderson, Susan L. Graham: Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation. 203-216
Andrew Birrell, Greg Nelson, Susan S. Owicki, Edward Wobber: Network Objects. 217-230
Alan Jones, Andrew Hopper: Handling Audio and Video Streams in a Distributed Environment. 231-243
Chris Maeda, Brian N. Bershad: Protocol Service Decomposition for High-Performance Networking. 244-255

System Issues

Edward Wobber, Martín Abadi, Michael Burrows, Butler W. Lampson: Authentication in the Taos Operating System. 256-269
Mike Spreitzer, Marvin Theimer: Providing Location Information in a Ubiquitous Computing Environment. 270-283