Operating System Structure

1 - Edsger W. Dijkstra
The Structure of the "THE" Multiprogramming System
Communications of the ACM 11(5), May 1968.
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2 - Per Brinch Hansen
The Nucleus of a Multiprogramming System
Communications of the ACM 13(4), April 1970
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3 - 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 17(6), June 1974, pp. 337-344.
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4 - Ritchie, D.M. and Thompson, K.
The UNIX Time-Sharing System
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 17, No. 7, July 1974, pp. 365-375.
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5 - David D. Redell, Yogen K. Dalal, Thomas R. Horsley, Hugh C. Lauer, William C. Lynch, Paul R. McJones, Hal G. Murray, and Stephen C.Purcell
Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer
Communications of the ACM 23(2), February 1980, pp. 81-92.
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6 - Calton Pu, Tito Autrey, Andrew Black, Charles Consel, Crispin Cowan, Jon Inouye, Lakshmi Kethana, Jonathan Walpole, and Ke Zhang
Optimistic Incremental Specialization: Streamlining a Commercial Operating System
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'95), December 3-6, 1995, Copper Mountain, Colorado.
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7 - Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum.
Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors
Proceedings of The Sixteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (October 1997)
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8 - J. Bradley Chen and Brian Bershad
The Impact of Operating System Structure on Memory System Performance
14th Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP), 1993.
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Stable Storage

9 - McKusick, M.K., Joy, W.N., Leffler, S.J., and Fabry, R.S.
A Fast File System for UNIX
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 2, No. 3, August 1984, pp. 181-197.
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10 - Rosenblum, M. and Ousterhout, J.
The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 26-52.
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11 - Patterson, D., Gibson, G., and Katz, R.,
A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Chicago IL, June 1988.
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12 - Wilkes, J., Golding, R., Staelin, C., and Sullivan, T.
The HP AutoRAID Hierarchical Storage System
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Copper Mountain, CO, December 1995, pp. 96-108.
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Scheduling and Resource Management

13 - Waldspurger, C.A. and Weihl, W.E.
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Mangement
Proceedings of the First Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Monterey CA, November 1994, pp. 1-11.
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14 - Banga, G., Druschel, P,. Mogul, J.
Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems
Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI-III), New Orleans, LA, February, 1999, 45-58.
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15 - Anderson, T., Bershad, B., Lazowska, E., and Levy, H.
Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level Management of Parallelism
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 53-79.
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Memory Management

16 - Levy, H. and Lipman, P.,
Virtual Memory Management in the VAX/VMS Operating System
IEEE Computer, Vol. 15, No. 3, March 1982, pp. 35-41.
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17 - Rashid, R., Tevanian, A., Young, M., Golub, D., Baron, R., Black, D., Bolosky, W., and Chew, J.
Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Palo Alto CA, October 1987, pp. 31-39.
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18 - Daley, R.C., and Dennis, J.B.
Virtual Memory, Processes, and Sharing in MULTICS
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 5, May 1968, pp. 306-312.
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Interprocess Communication and Networking

19 - Andrew D. Birrell and Bruce Jay Nelson
Implementing Remote Procedure Calls
ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 2(1), February 1984, pp. 39-59.

20 - Thorsten von Eicken, Anindya Basu, Vineet Buch, Werner Vogels
U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado, December 1995, 40-53.

Distributed Systems

21 - Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Yatin Chawathe, Eric A. Brewer
Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services
Proc. 1997 Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-16), St-Malo, France, Oct. 1997.

22 - Bruce Walker, Gerald Popek, Robert English, Charles Kline and Greg Thiel
The LOCUS Distributed Operating System
Proc. of the 9th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 1983, pp. 49-69.

Distributed Stable Storage

23 - Sandberg, R., Goldberg, D., Kleiman, S., Walsh, D., and Lyon, B.
Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem
For current NFS info, read Sun NFS details

24 - Howard, J.H., Kazar, M.L., Menees, S.G., Nichols, D.A., Satyanarayanan, M., Sidebotham, R.N., and West, M.J.
Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 1988, pp. 51-81.

25 - Baker, M., Hartman, J., Kupfer, M., Shirriff, K., and Ousterhout, J.
Measurements of a Distributed File System
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium on Operating System Principles, Pacific Grove CA, October 1991, pp. 198-212.

26 - James J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan
Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System
13th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Asilomar, California, pp. 213-225. October 1991.

Distributed Scheduling & Resource Management

27 - Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Alan Mainwaring
Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems
Sigmetrics'98 Conference on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Security

28 - Dorothy E. Denning and Peter J. Denning
Data Security
Computing Surveys, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 1979, pp. 227-249.

29 - Roger M. Needham and Michael D. Schroeder
Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers
Communications of the ACM 21(12), December 1978, pp.993-999.

30 - J. G. Steiner, C. Neuman, J. I. Schiller
Kerberos: An Authentication Service for Open Network Systems
USENIX '88, Dallas, TX, February 1988, pp. 191-202.

Miscellaneous (if we have time)

Fault Tolerance:
31 - Anita Borg, Wolfgang Blau, Wolfgang Graetsch, Ferdinand Heermann, Wolfgang Oberle
Fault Tolerance Under UNIX
Transactions on Computing Systems, February 1989, Vol 7:1, pp. 1-13

I/O Infrastructure:
32 - Vivek Pai, Peter Druschel and Willy Zwaenepoel.
IO-Lite: A Unified I/O Buffering and Caching System
Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'99), New Orleans, LA, February 1999

Compiler-based Protection:
33 - Robert Wahbe, Steven Lucco, Thomas Anderson, Susan Graham
Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation
December, 1993, Asheville, North Carolina, pp. 203-216.

Mobility:
34 - D. B. Terry, M. M. Theimer, K. Petersen, A. J. Demers, M. J. Spreitzer, and C. Hauser
Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System
Proceedings 15th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-15) , Cooper Mountain, Colorado, December 1995, pages 172-183.