Michael B. Jones' Research Publications

Research Publications

• FUSE: Lightweight Guaranteed Distributed Failure Notification.  John Dunagan, Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Dejan Kostic, Marvin Theimer, Alec Wolman.  In Proceedings of the Sixth USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04), December 2004.
• Subscriber/Volunteer Trees: Polite, Efficient Overlay Multicast Trees.  John Dunagan, Nicholas J.A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Marvin Theimer, and Alec Wolman.  Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-131, December 2004.
• Engineering Realities of Building a Working Peer-to-Peer System.  Michael B. Jones and John Dunagan.  Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-54, June 2004.
• An Evaluation of Scalable Application-Level Multicast Built Using Peer-To-Peer Overlays.  Miguel Castro, Michael B. Jones, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Antony Rowstron, Marvin Theimer, Helen Wang, and Alec Wolman.  In Proceedings of Infocom 2003, April 2003.
• SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties.  Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Stefan Saroiu, Marvin Theimer, and Alec Wolman. In Proceedings of Fourth USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '03), March 2003.  Received Best Paper Award.
• Efficient Recovery From Organizational Disconnect in SkipNet.  Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Michael B. Jones, Marvin Theimer, and Alec Wolman. In Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03), February 2003.
• Unexpected Complexity: Experiences Tuning and Extending CAN.  Michael B. Jones, Marvin Theimer, Helen Wang, and Alec Wolman. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-118, December 2002.
• SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties.  Nicholas J. A. Harvey, John Dunagan, Michael B. Jones, Stefan Saroiu, Marvin Theimer, and Alec Wolman. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-92, December 2002.
• Overlook: Scalable Name Service on an Overlay Network. Marvin Theimer and Michael B. Jones. In Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Vienna, Austria. IEEE Computer Society, July 2002.
• Herald: Achieving a Global Event Notification Service. Luis Felipe Cabrera, Michael B. Jones, and Marvin Theimer. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), Elmau, Germany. IEEE Computer Society, May 2001.
• Two Case Studies in Predictable Application Scheduling Using Rialto/NT. Michael B. Jones, John Regehr, and Stefan Saroiu. In Proceedings of the Seventh Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2001), Taipei, Taiwan, May-June 2001.
• Predictability Requirements of a Soft Modem. Michael B. Jones and Stefan Saroiu. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Cambridge, MA, June 2001.
• Predictable Scheduling for a Soft Modem. Michael B. Jones and Stefan Saroiu. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2000-88, December 2000.
• Predictable Scheduling for Digital Audio. Michael B. Jones and John Regehr. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2000-87, December 2000.
• Operating System Support for Multimedia: The Programming Model Matters. John Regehr, Michael B. Jones, and John A. Stankovic. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2000-89, September 2000.
• Consumer Real-Time Systems and Applications. Michael B. Jones. Invited position statement in Distributed Systems Online, Real-Time and Embedded Systems area special issue on "Where is Real-Time and Embedded Systems Research Going?", vol. 1, issue 3. IEEE, September 2000.
• CPU Reservations and Time Constraints: Implementation Experience on Windows NT. Michael B. Jones and John Regehr. In Proceedings of the Third USENIX Windows NT Symposium, Seattle, WA, pages 93-102, July 1999.
• The Problems You're Having May Not Be the Problems You Think You're Having: Results from a Latency Study of Windows NT. Michael B. Jones and John Regehr. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VII), Rio Rico, AZ. IEEE Computer Society, March 1999.
• Vassal: Loadable Scheduler Support for Multi-Policy Scheduling. George M. Candea and Michael B. Jones. In Proceedings of the Second USENIX Windows NT Symposium, Seattle, WA, pages 157-166, August 1998. Received best student paper award.
• Issues in Using Commodity Operating Systems for Time-Dependent Tasks: Experiences from a Study of Windows NT. Michael B. Jones and John Regehr. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '98), Cambridge, England, July 1998.
• CPU Reservations and Time Constraints: Efficient, Predictable Scheduling of Independent Activities. Michael B. Jones, Daniela Rosu, Marcel-Catalin Rosu. In Proceedings of the 16^th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Saint-Malo, France, pages 198-211, October 1997.
  SOSP '97 CD-ROM data also available.
• The Microsoft Interactive TV System: An Experience Report. Michael B. Jones. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-97-18, July 1997.
• Operating System Directions for the Next Millennium. William J. Bolosky, Richard P. Draves, Robert P. Fitzgerald, Christopher W. Fraser, Michael B. Jones, Todd B. Knoblock, Rick Rashid. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VI), Cape Cod, MA. IEEE Computer Society, May 1997.
• An Overview of the Rialto Real-Time Architecture. Michael B. Jones, Joseph S. Barrera III, Alessandro Forin, Paul J. Leach, Daniela Rosu, Marcel-Catalin Rosu. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Connemara, Ireland, pages 249-256, September 1996.
• The Tiger Video Fileserver. William J. Bolosky, Joseph S. Barrera, III, Richard P. Draves, Robert P. Fitzgerald, Garth A. Gibson, Michael B. Jones, Steven P. Levi, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Richard F. Rashid. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '96), Zushi, Japan. IEEE Computer Society, April 1996.
• Modular Real-Time Resource Management in the Rialto Operating System. Michael B. Jones, Paul J. Leach, Richard P. Draves, Joseph S. Barrera, III. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V), Orcas Island, WA, pages 12-17. IEEE Computer Society, May 1995.
• Interposition Agents: Transparently Interposing User Code at the System Interface. Michael B. Jones. In Proceedings of the 14^th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Asheville, NC, pages 80-93. December 1993.
• Adaptive Real-Time Resource Management Supporting Composition of Independently Authored Time-Critical Services. Michael B. Jones. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WWOS-IV), Napa, CA, pages 135-139. IEEE Computer Society, October 1993.
• Inheritance in Unlikely Places: Using Objects to Build Derived Implementations of Flat Interfaces. Michael B. Jones. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems (IWOOOS '92), Paris, pages 341-345. IEEE Computer Society, September 1992.
• Transparently Interposing User Code at the System Interface. Michael B. Jones. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, September 1992. Available as Technical Report CMU-CS-92-170.
• Bringing the C Libraries With Us into a Multi-Threaded Future. Michael B. Jones. In Proceedings of the Winter 1991 Usenix Conference, Dallas, TX, pages 81-91. January 1991.

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Last modified March 10, 2007, Michael B. Jones, <mbj@microsoft.com>.