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From: iyer@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Rajappa Iyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Network protocols as user level processes - references
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Date: 22 Oct 93 17:52:04 GMT
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A while ago I posted an article about implementing network protocols
as user level processes and referred to a paper by Chris Maeda and
Brian Bershad. Several people have emailed me and asked me for this
reference --- so it seems to be of general interest. The full
reference is:

Chris Maeda, Brian Bershad. Protocol Service Decomposition for High
Performance Networking. In the Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium
on Operating Systems Principles. December 1993. To appear.

Meantime you can ftp it from mach.cs.cmu.edu in
doc/published/user.level.protocol.ps.

Chris said that he'd be posting a summary of the paper in
comp.unix.internals soon, so you may wanna check that out.

I also mentioned that Doug Schmidt had posted a list of references
which would give one an idea of alternative communications
infrastructure (alternative to STREAMS, that is.) That also seems to
be of general interest: so here it is.

The following references will give you an idea of some other
approaches to communication frameworks:

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@article{Hutchinson:91,
	AUTHOR = "Norman C. Hutchinson and Larry L. Peterson",
	TITLE = "{The {\em x}-kernel: An Architecture for Implementing
	Network Protocols}",
	JOURNAL = "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering",
	YEAR = 1991,
	VOLUME = 17,
	NUMBER = 1,
	MONTH = {January},
	PAGES = "64--76",
}

@incollection{Zweig:90,
	AUTHOR = "Jonathan M. Zweig",
        TITLE = "{The Conduit: a Communication Abstraction in C++}",
        BOOKTITLE = "USENIX C++ Conference Proceedings",
        PUBLISHER = "USENIX Association",
        MONTH = "April",
        YEAR = {1990},
        PAGES = "191--203",
}

@inproceedings{Presotto:93,
	AUTHOR="David Presotto",
	TITLE="{Multiprocessor Streams for Plan 9}",
	BOOKTITLE="Winter USENIX Conference",
	ADDRESS="San Diego, CA",
	ORGANIZATION="USENIX",
	MONTH=jan,
	YEAR=1993
}

@book{Leffler:89,
	AUTHOR = "S. J. Leffler and M.K. McKusick and M.J. Karels and
	J.S. Quarterman",
	TITLE = "{The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX
	Operating System}",
	PUBLISHER = "Addison-Wesley",
	YEAR = 1989,
}

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For a general discussion of the problems associated with multiplexing
in communication protocol stacks you might want to check out the
following references:

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@inproceedings{Feldmeier:90b,
	AUTHOR="David C. Feldmeier",
	TITLE="{Multiplexing Issues in Communications System Design}",
	BOOKTITLE=sigcomm,
	ORGANIZATION="ACM",
	ADDRESS="Philadelphia, PA",
	YEAR=1990,
	MONTH=sep,
}

@inproceedings{Tennenhouse:89,
	AUTHOR="David L. Tennenhouse",
	TITLE="{Layered Multiplexing Considered Harmful}",
	BOOKTITLE="Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on
	High-Speed Networks",
	MONTH={May},
	YEAR=1989,
}

Hope this helps
Thanks
Rajappa Iyer
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