Many of these publications are products of our work on Composite.

Peer-Reviewed and Published Papers
Qi Wang, Jiguo Song, and Gabriel Parmer. Execution Stack Management for Hard Real-Time Computation in a Component-Based OS. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December 2011.
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Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Mutable Protection Domains: Adapting System Fault Isolation for Reliability and Efficiency", Accepted in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
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Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, Predictable and Configurable Component-based Scheduling in the Composite OS, Accepted in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).
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M. Harlan and G. Parmer. JoinFS: the Design and Implementation of a Semantic File System In Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA), 2011.
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Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, HiRes: a System for Predictable Hierarchical Resource Management, to appear in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2011), Chicago, IL, April 2011
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Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, Application-Specific Service Technologies for Commodity Operating Systems in Real-Time Environments, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 10, Number 3, 2011
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G. Bloom, G. Parmer, B. Narahari, and R. Simha. Real-Time Scheduling with Hardware Data Structures, Work-in-Progress Session, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2010. RTSS 2010. December 2010.
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G. Parmer and J. Song. Customizable and predictable synchronization in a component-based OS. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA), 2010.
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G. Parmer. The case for thread migration: Predictable IPC in a customizable and reliable OS. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time applications (OSPERT '10), 2010.
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Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Predictable Interrupt Management and Scheduling in the Composite Component-based System", in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Barcelona, Spain, 1-3 December 2008
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Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Mutable Protection Domains: Towards a Component-based System for Dependable and Predictable Computing", in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Tucson, Az, 3-6 December 2007
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Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Revisiting the Design of Systems for High-Confidence Embedded and Cyber-Physical Computing Environment", position paper at the NSF High Confidence Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop, Arlington, VA, July 2007
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Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, and Gerald Fry, "Scalable Overlay Multicast Tree Construction for Media Streaming", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA '07), June 2007
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Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Hijack: Taking Control of COTS Systems for Real-Time User-Level Services", in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2007), Bellevue, WA, April 2007
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Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "A Software Architecture for Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems", position paper at the NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop, Austin Texas, October 2006
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Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Application-Specific Service Technologies for Commodity Operating Systems in Real-Time Environments", in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '06), San Jose, CA, April 2006
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Xin Qi, Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "An Efficient End-host Architecture for Cluster Communication Services", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster '04), September 2004
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Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, Xin Qi, Gerald Fry and Yuting Zhang, "An Internet-wide Distributed System for Data-stream Processing", in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet Computing (IC 2004), June 2004
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Thesis
Gabriel Parmer "Composite: A Component-Based Operating System for Predictable and Dependable Computing", Phd. Thesis, Boston University, 2009
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Technical Reports
Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, Gerald Fry "Scalable Overlay Multicast Tree Construction for QoS-Constrained Media Streaming", Technical Report, BUCS-TR-2006-020, Boston University, August, 2006
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Gabriel Parmer, Georgios Zervas, Angshuman Bagchi "Extending snBench to Support Hierarchical and Configurable Scheduling", Technical Report, 2006-012, Boston University, July, 2006
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Richard West, Jason Gloudon, Xin Qi and Gabriel Parmer, "An Efficient User-Level Shared Memory Mechanism for Application-Specific Extensions", Technical Report, 2005-005, Boston University, February 2005 (revised version of Technical Report 2003-014)
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Xin Qi, Gabriel Parmer, Richard West, Jason Gloudon and Luis Hernandez, "Efficient End-Host Architecture for High Performance Communication using User-level Sandboxing", Technical Report, 2004-009, Boston University, March 2004
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Selected Presentations
Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Predictable Interrupt Management and Scheduling in the Composite Component-based System", Presented at the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Barcelona, Spain, 1-3 December 2008
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Gabriel Parmer, "On the Design and Implementation of Mutable Protection Domains Towards Reliable Component-Based Systems", Presented at Industrial Affiliates Research Day, BU CS Dept., Boston, MA, 2008
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Gabriel Parmer, "Mutable Protection Domains: Towards a Component-based System for Dependable and Predictable Computing", Presented at Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2007), Tucson, Az, 3-6 December 2007
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Gabriel Parmer and Richard West, "Hypervisor Support for Component-Based Operating Systems", invited to the poster session @ VMworld, San Francisco, CA, 2007
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Gabriel Parmer, "Hijack: Taking Control of COTS Systems for Real-Time User-Level Services", presented at the 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2007), Bellevue, WA, April 2007
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Richard West and Gabriel Parmer, "Hijack: Taking Control of COTS Systems to Enforce Predictable Service Guarantees", presented at VMware , Cambridge, MA, June 2006
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