Adam M.
Costello
Projects
[Dissertation]
[Tangle]
[Kong]
[EECS 122]
[Quals]
[Online Backup]
[Search Party]
[Contractor]
[OS prelim sp97]
[pstext]
[FDDI]
[MS Thesis]
[BSD Timer]
[Window Washing]
[BibProc]
[cexcept]
[charset]
[Fonts]
[IDN]
[LoseNIM]
[Par]
[PNG]
[Puzzles]
[S40-Façade]
[Utils]
[X-Advice]
[init System]
[pkg Interface]
- For grad school at UC
Berkeley:
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- Randomized
Forwarding for Fault Tolerance in Peer-to-Peer Protocols
- My doctoral dissertation, in progress, investigates the
improvement in fault tolerance that peer-to-peer protocols can
gain if messages are forwarded randomly.
- Tangle: A distributed hash table
based on randomized forwarding
- Distributed hash tables are built on mechanisms that allow
nodes to find each other by forwarding messages through multiple
hops. Tangle's randomized forwarding makes this process more
fault-tolerant.
- Kong: The network delay ape
- Inspired by the
king
tool for remotely measuring network round-trip times, Kong is a
scalable system for sampling many round-trip times and mimicking
them in simulations.
- EECS 122: Introduction to Communication
Networks
- A course I co-instructed in fall 1999.
- Joint Design of Multicast Loss
Recovery and Forwarding Service Extensions
- My quals proposal.
- Online Backup and Restore
- An incremental-only device-based online backup scheme that
achieves low peak bandwidth and intelligently ordered online
restore by writing the incremental dumps gradually, at multiple
time scales concurrently.
- Search Party: Using
Randomcast for Reliable Multicast with Local Recovery
- In a multicast distribution tree, a packet loss affects
only a subtree. Local recovery (confining the retransmission
near the loss subtree) is essential for scalability to large
groups. Randomized forwarding prevents a few malfunctioning
group members from having a large impact.
- OS prelim spring 1997
reading list
- I compiled an online reading list for the spring 1997
preliminary exam in operating systems, with pointers to many of
the papers and some summaries. The questions also appear.
- Contractor: A Remote
Computation Environment for Java Applications
- A system enabling users to run their untrusted code on
remote servers, which fairly allocate resources among multiple
jobs.
- pstext: Turning Postscript into
Useful Text
- Can we use PostScript files more like documents, as opposed
to images? In particular, can we select, copy, and search for
text? If I ever get around to it...
- For grad school at Washington University:
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- Counter Flushing in FDDI
- An application of Counter Flushing to the FDDI token-passing
protocol.
- Self-Stabilization by
Counter Flushing and Window Washing
- My master's thesis. It includes the Window Washing work
(see below) and the FDDI work (see above).
- New Callout and Timer Facilities
for NetBSD
- A replacement timing algorithm designed in 1987 by
George Varghese and Tony Lauck, now
hacked into NetBSD. It allows callouts to be set and canceled
in constant time no matter how many outstanding callouts already
exist. Also, an extension to the
setitimer()
interface, allowing each process to have multiple real-time
interval timers.
- Window Washing
- A technique used to achieve self-stabilization in a
one-to-many sliding window protocol.
- Bib File Processor
- A mail server for collecting BibTeX entries.
- For my personal use and entertainment:
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- cexcept
- A try/catch/throw exception-handling interface for C.
- charset
- A summary of ISO-2022 and a character encoding I've devised
for modeless multiple-character-set text, called MTF-8.
- Fonts
- Fonts I've created or modified.
- IDN
- Some contributions to the Internationalized Domain Names
(IDN) working group, in particular a string encoding called
Punycode.
- LoseNIM
- An unbeatable NIM player.
- Par
- A paragraph reformatter.
- PNG
- Portable Network Graphics, an image file format to replace
GIF.
- Puzzles
- Cool puzzles I've collected, with solutions.
- South Forty Façade
- A new musical every year with its own temporary
theatre, written, built, and performed by students at Washington University
for Thurtene Carnival. Unfortunately, they don't
yet have a permanent web page. I have some documents of interest to
Façadites.
- Utils
- Miscellaneous small utilities that I've written over the
years.
- X-Advice
- A proposal for a new message header field.
- From when I used to work for the Engineering Computer Lab:
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- Install System
- Automatically installs and updates ECL-administered machines.
- init
System
- A standard, customizable user environment.
- pkg
Interface
- A user-friendly command set for accessing software packages.
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