Orion Hodson

I am a senior software developer in the Operating Systems group at Microsoft Research. I primarily work on the Singularity O/S project.

Before coming to MSR in July 2004, I worked on the XORP open source router project at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. XORP's goal is to produce an extensible routing platform for research and development purposes. It's a monster project with a great group of people working on it.

I was formerly a member of the Networked Multimedia Research Group in the CS department of University College London. I worked on multicast conferencing applications, in particular the Robust Audio Tool (aka RAT). I also contributed to UCL's RTP and multimedia library, and was a committer on the FreeBSD project.

Contact Information

Publications

Refereed Papers

• Solving the Starting Problem: Device Drivers as Self-Describing Artifacts, by Michael Spear, Tom Roeder, Orion Hodson, Galen Hunt and Steven Levi, in Proceedings of EuroSys 2006, Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
• Language support for Fast and Reliable Message-based Communication in Singularity OS, by Manuel Fahndrich, Mark Aiken, Chris Hawblitzel, Orion Hodson, Galen Hunt, James Larus and Steven Levi, in Proceedings of EuroSys 2006, Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
  Awarded Best Paper!
• Designing Extensible IP Router Software, by Atanu Ghosh, Mark Handley, Orion Hodson, Eddie Kohler, and Pavlin Radoslavov, in Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, Massachuesetts, May 2005.
• XORP: An Open Platform for Network Research, by Mark Handley, Orion Hodson, Eddie Kohler, in ACM SIGCOMM HotNets-I, Princeton, New Jersey, October 2002.
• Skew Detection and Compensation for Internet Audio Applications, by Orion Hodson, Colin Perkins, and Vicky Hardman, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, NY, July 2000.
• A Survey of Packet-Loss Recovery Techniques for Streaming Audio, by Colin Perkins, Orion Hodson, Vicky Hardman, in IEEE Network, Issue 5, Volume 12, pages 40-48, 1998.
• Redundancy Control in Real-Time Internet Audio Conferencing, by Isidor Kouvelas, Orion Hodson, Vicky Hardman and Jon Crowcroft, in Proceedings of AVSPN'97, Aberdeen, Scotland, September 1997.

Book Chapters

• Speech and Music Transmission over the Best-Effort Internet, by Orion Hodson and Vicky Hardman, in Handbook of Communications Technologies: The Next Decade, published by CRC Press LLC, 1999.

Other

• RFC2198 : RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data, by Colin Perkins, Isidor Kouvelas, Orion Hodson, Vicky Hardman, Mark Handley, Jean Bolot, Andres Vega-Garcia, Sacha Fosse-Parisis, Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC2198, September 1997.
• RFC2354: Options for Repair of Streaming Media, by Colin Perkins and Orion Hodson, Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC 2354, June 1998.
• A software platform for multi-way audio distribution over the Internet, by Orion Hodson, Socrates Varakliotis, and Vicky Hardman, in Audio and Music Technology: The Challenge of Creative DSP, IEE Colloquium, London, November 1998.