This paper presents the end-to-end argument, which comprehends most network applications and plays an important part in balancing the tradeoffs between low and high-level implementations.

Paper from 1988 by David Clark, demonstrating the main motivations behind the early internet protocols design.

This paper presents Shenango, a system that provides microsecond-scale tail latencies while enabling unused CPU cycles to be used by latency-sensitive batch processing applications.

This paper demonstrates the design and implementation of an OS that provides high throughput and low latency for packet processing while still maintaining the key advantage of strong protection offered by kernels.

Paper produced by Stanford University researchers presenting Dune, a system that provides direct access to hardware features by taking leverage of Intel VT-x virtualization extension.