ls papers and documentation

Octopus related

Using the Octopus Francisco J. Ballesteros. GSyC TR. (pdf).
Octopus 2nd. edition User's Manual. Laboratorio de Sistemas. GSyC TR. ROSAC-2008-01. (pdf).
Towards Persistent, Distributed, and Replicated User Interfaces in the Octopus Francisco J Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, Gorka Guardiola. IWP9 2007. (pdf).
Op: Styx batching for High Latency Links. Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola, Enrique Soriano, and Spyros Lalis. IWP9 2007. (pdf).
Building a Network File System Protocol for Device Access over High Latency Links Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, Spyros Lalis, Gorka Guardiola. Submitted for publication. 2007. (pdf)
The Octopus: Towards Building Distributed Smart Spaces by Centralizing Everything. Francisco J Ballesteros, Pedro de las Heras, Enrique Soriano, and Spyros Lalis. UCAMI 2007. (pdf).
Building the Octopus. Francisco J. Ballesteros Spyros Lalis Enrique Soriano. GSyC Tech. Rep. 2006-06. (pdf).
Give Me Back My Personal Mainframe. Lessons Learned from Plan B and Position Statement. Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano. 2006. First International Workshop on Plan 9. Madrid, 2006. (pdf).

See also the Plan B papers. The octopus is indeed a new way of architecting Plan B.

Plan B related

Human-to-Human Authorization for Resource Sharing in SHAD: Roles and Protocols Enrique Soriano, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola. Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 3(6), pp. 607-738, 2007. (pdf).
SHAD: A Human Centered Security Architecture for the Plan B Operating System Enrique Soriano, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola. IEEE PerCom 2007, NY, USA. (pdf).
A P2P Single Sign-On which remains Single on Smart Spaces Enrique Soriano, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola. Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (WUCAMI 06). (pdf).
The LS Smart Space for Profgrammers Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, Gorka Guardiola. Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (WUCAMI 06). (pdf).
Plan B: Using Files instead of Middleware Abstractions for Pervasive Computing Environments.Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, Gorka Guardiola, Katia Leal. To appear in IEEE Pervasive Computing (Journal). 2007. (ps).
The Plan B OS for Ubiquitous Computing. Voice, Security, and Terminals as Case Studies. Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz, Katia Leal Algara. Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. 2(2006), pp. 472-488. 2006.
Plan B: An Operating System for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, Katia Leal, Gorka Guardiola. IEEE PerCom 2006. (pdf).
Omero: Ubiquitous User Interfaces in the Plan B Operating System. Francisco J Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola, Katia Leal, Enrique Soriano. IEEE PerCom 2006. (pdf). An extended version is available.
Peer-to-Peer Single Sign-On Scheme for Today's Smart Spaces Enrique Soriano, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola. (pdf).
UbiTerm: A hand-held control-center for user's activity mobility. Katia Leal, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano, and Gorka Guardiola. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services 2005. (pdf).
Traditional Systems can Work Well for Pervasive Applications. A Case Study: Plan 9 from Bell Labs Becomes Ubiquitous. Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola, Enrique Soriano, and Katia Leal. IEEE PerCom 2005. (extended version: pdf).
The Design and Implementation of Plan B 3rd edition. A dynamic distributed computing environment.Francisco J. Ballesteros, Katial Leal, Gorka Guardiola, and Enrique Soriano. GSyC Tech. Rep 2004-05. (pdf).
Plan B 2nd edition user's manual. Francisco Ballesteros et al. GSyC Tech. Rep. 2004-04. (ps).
CUROCO: a distributed architecture for the dynamic generation, composition and use of context in highly dynamic and heterogeneous environments. (PhD Thesis proposal) Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz. 1st Middleware Doctoral Symposium, Proceedings of the ACM/USENIX Middleware 2004 Workshops, Toronto (Canada), Toronto (Canada), October 2004. (pdf).
SHAD: A Human Centered Security Architecture for Partitionable, Dynamic and Heterogeneous Distributed Systems. (PhD Thesis proposal) Enrique Soriano Salvador. 1st Middleware Doctoral Symposium, Proceedings of the ACM/USENIX Middleware 2004 Workshops, Toronto (Canada), October 2004. (pdf).
Plan B 2nd edition user's manual. Laboratorio de Sistemas. (ps). TR-GSYC-2004-4.
A Mobile and ubiquitous system for the new millennium. Doing new things with ancient technology from the 70s!. Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz and Katia Leal Algara. Demonstration at WMCSA 2004. (pdf).
/net. A Network Abstraction for Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environments in the Plan B Operating System. Francisco J. Ballesteros, Eva M. Castro, Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz, Katia Leal Algara, and Pedro de las Heras Quiros. WMCSA, 2004. (pdf).
Plan B: Boxes for network resources. Francisco Ballesteros, Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz, Katia Leal Algara, Enrique Soriano, Pedro de las Heras Quirós, Eva M. Castro, Andres Leonardo, and Sergio Arévalo. JBCS special issue on Adaptable computing systems., 2004. (html, pdf, ps).
Plan B 1st edition user's manual. Francisco Ballesteros. ps. TR-GSYC-2002-04.
Off++: The Network in a Box. (ps). Francisco J Ballesteros, Fabio Kon, and Roy Campbell. ECOOP Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems 2000.
The Box: A Replacement for Files. (ps or html ). Francisco J. Ballesteros and Sergio Arevalo. Proceedings of IEEE HotOS-VII. 1999. (c) IEEE.

Misc

File indexing and searching for Plan 9. pdf. Francisco Ballesteros. Tech note. 2007.

PhD Theses

Enrique Soriano's PhD. Thesis. SHAD: An Architecture for Partitionable, Dynamic and Heterogeneous Distributed Systems Applied to Ubiquitous Computing. English and Spanish abstract. (Spanish, pdf)
Gorka Guardiola's PhD. Thesis. Oni Spanish, pdf.

Talks

Op: Styx batching for High Latency Links IWP9 2007
User Interfaces in the octopus IWP9 2007
Octopus as middleware. IWP9 2007 WIP
SHAD PerCom. 2007
Octopus IWP9 2006
Omero PerCom. 2006
Plan B PerCom. 2006
x10 service. PerCom. 2005
Plan B's 3rd ed. PhD seminar at UPV. 2004
Plan B's 2nd ed. PhD seminar at UPV. 2004
Plan B's PCM JCSD. 2004
Plan B's /net Internal seminar. 2003

Older papers

Those ones related to 2K are here because they were produced while working in Off++ (now a closed project) and also because 2K is kind of related to what we are trying to do now, which means that it's useful to have the links here too.

Mejorando NFS. (ps). Gorka Guardiola, Francisco J Ballesteros. Hispalinux 2000.
QoS in the Off++ microkernel. (ps). Francisco J Ballesteros, Fabio Kon, and Roy Campbell. ECOOP Workshop in Quality of Service in Distributed Object Systems 2000.
An Adaptable Distributed File Service. (ps). Christopher K Hess, Francisco J Ballesteros and Roy Campbell. ECOOP PhDOOS 2000.
Interaction and Distribution of Execution Environments in 2K (ps). Dulcineia Carvalho, Fabio Kon, Manuel Roman, Francisco Ballesteros, Christopher Hess, Roy Campbell, and Dennis Mickunas. 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis, ISAS 2000.
2K: A Distributed Operating System for Dynamic Heterogeneous Environments. (pdf). Fabio Kon, Roy Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, Klara Nahrstedt, and Francisco J. Ballesteros. 9th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing. Pittsburgh. August 1-4, 2000
Management of Environments in 2K. (ps). Dulcineia Carvalho, Fabio Kon, Francisco Ballesteros, Manuel Roman, Roy Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas. 7th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS-2000). Iwate. Japan. July 4-7 2000.
Using Interpreted CompositeCalls to Improve Operating System Services. (ps, html) Francisco Ballesteros, Ricardo Jimenez, Marta Patio, Fabio Kon, Sergio Arevalo, and Roy Campbell. Software Practice & Experience.
Batching: A design pattern for flexible and efficient client-server interaction. The version after the PLoP workshop. (ps). Marta Patio, Francisco Ballesteros, Ricardo Jimenez, Sergio Arevalo, Fabio Kon, and Roy Campbell. PLoP'99. Illinois, 1999. An extended version is available as a technical report of the University of Illinois UIUCDCS-R-99-2118 (html or ps).
Object Orientation in Off++. A distributed adaptable microKernel ps or html ). Francisco J. Ballesteros, Christopher Hess, Fabio Kon, Sergio Arevalo, and Roy H. Campbell. 2nd ECOOP Workshop on Object-Orientation and Operating Systems (ECOOP-OOOSWS'99)
The Design and Implementation of the Off++ and vOff++ Microkernels. (ps) Franscisco J. Ballesteros, Christopher Hess, Fabio Kon, and Roy H. Campbell. Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-98-2086, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March, 1999.
The Box: A Replacement for Files. (ps or html ). Francisco J. Ballesteros and Sergio Arevalo. Proceedings of IEEE HotOS-VII. 1999. (c) IEEE.
Towards a Grand Unified Framework For Mobile Objects (ps or html). Francisco J. Ballesteros and Fabio Kon and Sergio Arevalo and Roy H. Campbell. In proceedings of the III ECOOP Workshop on Mobility and Replication. 1998. How Off++ could apply to build mobile object systems.
There is also an extended abstract of the paper to appear in the ECOOP'98 Worshop Reader.
2K: A Reflective, Component-Based Operating System for Rapidly Changing Environments (ps). Fabio Kon, Ashish Singhai, Roy H. Campbell, Dulcineia Carvalho, Robert Moore, and Francisco Ballesteros. Proceedings of the ECOOP'98 Workshop on Reflective Object-Oriented Programming and Systems. 1998. A paper on the OS which will run on top of Off++, 2K.
The Network Hardware is the Operating System. ( ps, abstract or html). Francisco Ballesteros, Luis Lopez. In proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VI). This one describes the philosophy of the Off microkernel.
The Inherently Distributed Adaptable Off microkernel (ps or abstract). Technical Report UC3M-TR-CS-1997-01 and also in proceedings of the Spanish JJCC'97 meeting (unrefereed). This one describes the design (and a bit of the implementation) of the Off microkernel.
A Detailed Description of Off++, a Distributed Adaptable kernel (html). Francisco J. Ballesteros Fabio Kon Roy H. Campbell. Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report No. UIUCDCS-R-97-2035, UILU-ENG-97-1748.
Adaptable and Extensible Distributed Virtual Memory in the Off microkernel. (ps or abstract). It is a translation to english of UC3M-TR-CS-1997-02 (spanish version currently not available online).
Advice: An Adaptable and Extensible Distributed Shared Memory Architecture (ps, abstract or html) In Proc. of the IASTED PDCS'96, Chicago IL. In this paper we describe the design of the Off virtual memory system.
An adaptable and extensible framework for distributed object management. (ps, abstract or html). In Proc. of the ECOOP'96 workshop on mobility and replication. This one shows how a distributed object system could benefit from Advice.
A Data Structure for Stacked Mappings Management (ps). An unpublished paper containing the full implementation of a data structure named the "Chunk Store". It can be used to implement stacked mappings in virtual memory systems.
Off, un microkernel de proposito general para construccion de Sistemas de Tiempo Real. (ps or abstract; spanish) To appear in Novatica (a spanish magazine). It describes the benefits of using Off for RT systems.
Off -- Un Nuevo Enfoque en la Construccion de Sistemas Operativos Distribuidos. Nemo's PhD thesis (spanish!).