The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
Paper from 1988 by David Clark, demonstrating the main motivations behind the early internet protocols design.
Shenango: Achieving High CPU Efficiency for Latency-sensitive Datacenter Workloads
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.
IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency
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.
Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features
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.
The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors
Paper produced by MIT CSAIL and Harvard University researchers proving the commutativity rule as a critical aspect of system's interface design to promote scalability.