Papers, etc...

Distributed OS stuff

• An Adaptable Data Object Service Framework for Pervasive Computing Environments. (ps). Christopher K. Hess, Francisco Ballesteros, Roy Campbell and Dennis Mickunas. Proceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS'2001).
• Mejorando NFS. (ps). Gorka Guardiola, Francisco J Ballesteros. Hispalinux 2000.
• Off++: The Network in a Box. (ps). Francisco J Ballesteros, Fabio Kon, and Roy Campbell. ECOOP Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems 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 Pati€o, 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 Pati€o, 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.
• Efficient and Extensible Multithreaded Remote Servers (ps). R. Jimenez Peris, M. Patino Martinez, Francisco Ballesteros, and S. Arevalo. To appear in Proc. of the International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe'99.
• 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.
• Nemo's PhD thesis (spanish!).

PhD

Off -- Un Nuevo Enfoque en la Construccion de Sistemas Operativos Distribuidos. Also available in postscript.

Misc stuff

• LiS: Linux STREAMS. Francisco J. Ballesteros, Denis Froschauer, David Grothe, and Graham Wheeler. Linux Journal. An introduction to the STREAMS framework implemented for Linux.
• Protected Tagged Objects for Ada 95 (ps). [not published].
• Slides for the internal seminar Introduction to STREAMS. This is mostly incomplete, (most interesting slides are hand-written), but it could be you enjoy some drawing
• Java: Un lenguaje de prop€sito general. Vicente Matellan, Jose Centeno, Pedro de las Heras, Camino Fernandez, Ignacio Aedo Jesus Gonzalez y Francisco Ballesteros. Cuadernos de Informatica. FESI. 1999.