Key Papers
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Predictable Interrupt
Management and Scheduling in the Composite Component-based
System", in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems
Symposium (RTSS), Barcelona, Spain, 1-3 December 2008
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Mutable Protection Domains:
Towards a Component-based System for Dependable and Predictable
Computing", in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems
Symposium (RTSS), Tucson, Az, 3-6 December 2007
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Hijack: Taking Control of COTS
Systems for Real-Time User-Level Services", in Proceedings of
the 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications
Symposium (RTAS 2007), Bellevue, WA, April 2007
Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Application-Specific Service
Technologies for Commodity Operating Systems in Real-Time
Environments", in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Real-Time and
Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '06), San Jose,
CA, April 2006
- best-paper award
Peer-Reviewed and Published Papers
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Predictable Interrupt
Management and Scheduling in the Composite Component-based
System", in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems
Symposium (RTSS), Barcelona, Spain, 1-3 December 2008
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Mutable Protection Domains:
Towards a Component-based System for Dependable and Predictable
Computing", in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems
Symposium (RTSS), Tucson, Az, 3-6 December 2007
Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Revisiting the Design of
Systems for High-Confidence Embedded and Cyber-Physical Computing
Environment", position paper at the NSF High Confidence
Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop, Arlington, VA, July 2007
Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, and Gerald Fry, "Scalable Overlay
Multicast Tree Construction for Media Streaming", in Proceedings
of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA '07), June 2007
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Hijack: Taking Control of COTS
Systems for Real-Time User-Level Services", in Proceedings of
the 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications
Symposium (RTAS 2007), Bellevue, WA, April 2007
Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "A Software Architecture for
Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems", position paper at the
NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop, Austin Texas, October 2006
Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Application-Specific Service
Technologies for Commodity Operating Systems in Real-Time
Environments", accepted for publication in an upcoming ACM
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
- This is an extended version of the RTAS 2006 paper below
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Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Application-Specific Service
Technologies for Commodity Operating Systems in Real-Time
Environments", in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Real-Time and
Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '06), San Jose,
CA, April 2006
- best-paper award
Xin Qi, Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "An Efficient End-host
Architecture for Cluster Communication Services", in Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster
'04), September 2004
Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, Xin Qi, Gerald Fry and Yuting Zhang,
"An Internet-wide Distributed System for Data-stream
Processing", in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference
on Internet Computing (IC 2004), June 2004
Technical Reports and Papers Submitted for Publication
Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, Gerald Fry
"Scalable Overlay Multicast Tree Construction for QoS-Constrained
Media Streaming", Technical Report, BUCS-TR-2006-020, Boston
University, August, 2006
Gabriel Parmer, Georgios Zervas, Angshuman Bagchi
"Extending snBench to Support Hierarchical and Configurable
Scheduling", Technical Report, 2006-012, Boston University,
July, 2006
Richard West, Jason Gloudon, Xin Qi and Gabriel Parmer, "An
Efficient User-Level Shared Memory Mechanism for
Application-Specific Extensions", Technical Report, 2005-005,
Boston University, February 2005 (revised version of Technical
Report 2003-014)
Xin Qi, Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, Jason Gloudon and Luis
Hernandez, "Efficient End-Host Architecture for High Performance
Communication using User-level Sandboxing", Technical Report,
2004-009, Boston University, March 2004
Selected Presentations
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Predictable Interrupt
Management and Scheduling in the Composite Component-based
System", Presented at the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
(RTSS), Barcelona, Spain, 1-3 December 2008
Gabriel Parmer, "On the Design and Implementation of Mutable
Protection Domains Towards Reliable Component-Based Systems",
Presented at Industrial Affiliates Research Day, BU CS Dept.,
Boston, MA, 2008
- Best Poster Award
Gabriel Parmer, "Mutable Protection Domains: Towards a
Component-based System for Dependable and Predictable
Computing", Presented at Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Real-Time
Systems Symposium (RTSS 2007), Tucson, Az, 3-6 December 2007
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Hypervisor Support for
Component-Based Operating Systems", invited to the poster
session @ VMworld, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Gabriel Parmer, "Hijack: Taking Control of COTS Systems for
Real-Time User-Level Services", presented at the 13th IEEE
Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS
2007), Bellevue, WA, April 2007
Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Hijack: Taking Control of COTS
Systems to Enforce Predictable Service Guarantees", presented at
VMware , Cambridge, MA, June 2006