Selected Publications

Virtual Machine Monitors

P. Willmann, S. Rixner, A. L. Cox, Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices, USENIX Annual Technical Conference Boston, MA, (June, 2008).

D. Ongaro, A. L. Cox, and S. Rixner, Scheduling I/O in Virtual Machine Monitors, The International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE) Seattle, WA, (March, 2008).
S. Rixner, Network Virtualization: Breaking the Performance Barrier, ACM Queue (January/February, 2008).
P. Willmann, J. Shafer, D. Carr, A. Menon, S. Rixner, A. L. Cox, and W. Zwaenepoel, Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors, The International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) Phoenix, AZ, (February, 2007).
A. L. Cox, K. Mohanram, and S. Rixner, Dependable ≠ Unaffordable, The Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability San Jose, CA, (October, 2006).

Network Systems Architecture

K. K. Ram, I. C. Fedeli, A. L. Cox, S. Rixner, Explaining the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on SIP Proxy Performance, The International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, TX, (April, 2008).

H.-Y. Kim, S. Rixner, Connection Handoff Policies for TCP Offload Network Interfaces, The Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), Seattle, WA, (November, 2006).
P. Willmann, S. Rixner, A. L. Cox, An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems, USENIX Annual Technical Conference Boston, MA, (June, 2006). (Extended version: Technical Report TR06-872)
H.-Y. Kim, S. Rixner, TCP Offload Through Connection Handoff, EuroSys, Leuven, Belgium, (April, 2006).
H.-Y. Kim, S. Rixner, V. S. Pai, Network Interface Data Caching, IEEE Transactions on Computers, pp. 1394-1408, Volume 54, No. 11 (November, 2005).
H.-Y. Kim, S. Rixner, Performance Characterization of the FreeBSD Network Stack, Rice University Computer Science Technical Report TR05-450, (June, 2005).
V. S. Pai, S. Rixner, H.-Y. Kim, Isolating the Performance Impacts of Network Interface Cards through Microbenchmarks, International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), New York, NY, (June, 2004). (Extended version: Technical Report EE0401)
H.-Y. Kim, V. S. Pai, S. Rixner, Increasing Web Server Throughput with Network Interface Data Caching, International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), San Jose, CA, (October, 2002).

Memory Systems

M. Choudhury, K. Ringgenberg, S. Rixner, K. Mohanram, Single-ended Coding Techniques for Off-chip Interconnects to Commodity Memory, The Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Nice, France, (April 2007).
M. Calhoun, S. Rixner, A. L. Cox, Optimizing Kernel Block Memory Operations, Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, Austin, TX, (February, 2006).
S. Rixner, Memory Controller Optimizations for Web Servers, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Portland, OR, (December, 2004).
K. Mohanram, S. Rixner, Context-independent Codes for Off-chip Interconnects, Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems, Portland, OR, (December, 2004).
S. Rixner, W.J. Dally, U.J. Kapasi, P. Mattson, J.D. Owens, Memory Access Scheduling, International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Vancouver, BC (June 2000).

Embedded Systems

D. L. Schuff, V. S. Pai, P. Willmann, and S. Rixner, Parallel Programmable Ethernet Controllers: Performance and Security, IEEE Network, pp. 22-28, Volume 21, No. 4 (July-August 2007).
J. Shafer, S. Rixner, RiceNIC: A Reconfigurable Network Interface for Experimental Research and Education, Workshop on Experimental Computer Science, San Diego, CA, (June 2007).
J. Shafer, S. Rixner, RiceNIC: Prototyping Network Interfaces, Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping, San Diego, CA, (June 2007).
J. Shafer, S. Rixner, A Reconfigurable and Programmable Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card, Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Report TREE0611, (December 2006).
M. Brogioli, P. Willmann, S. Rixner, Parallelization Strategies for Network Interface Firmware, Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems, New York, NY, (March, 2006).
D. I. August, S. Malik, L.-S. Peh, V. S. Pai, M. Vachharajani, P. Willmann, Achieving Structural and Composable Modeling of Complex Systems, The International Journal of Parallel Programming, Volume 33, (June, 2005).
P. Willmann, H.-Y. Kim, V. S. Pai, S. Rixner, An Efficient Programmable 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card, The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), San Francisco, CA, (February, 2005).
S. Rajagopal, J. R. Cavallaro, S. Rixner, Design Space Exploration for Real-Time Embedded Stream Processors, IEEE Micro, pp. 54-66, Volume 24, No. 4, (July/August, 2004).
P. Willmann, M. Brogioli, V. S. Pai, Spinach: A Liberty-based Simulator for Programmable Network Interface Architectures, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Washington, D.C., (June, 2004).
H.-Y. Kim, V. S. Pai, S. Rixner, Exploiting Task-Level Concurrency in a Programmable Network Interface, ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), San Diego, CA, (June, 2003).
S. Rajagopal, S. Rixner, J. R. Cavallaro, A Programmable Baseband Processor Design for Software Defined Radios, Proceedings of the 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Tulsa, OK, (August 2002).

MPI Libraries

S. Majumder, S. Rixner, Comparing Ethernet and Myrinet for MPI Communication, The Seventh Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Support for Scalable Systems, Houston, TX, (October, 2004).
S. Majumder, S. Rixner, V. S. Pai, An Event-driven Architecture for MPI Libraries, The Los Alamos Computer Science Institute Symposium, Sante Fe, NM, (October, 2004).

Imagine

See Scott Rixner's home page and the Imagine home page for publications and information on Imagine.

The RSIM Project

See RSIM home page for publications and information on RSIM.

Student Theses

Hyong-youb Kim, TCP Offload through Connection Handoff, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Rice University, (August, 2006).
Michael Calhoun, Characterization of Block Memory Operations, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, (May, 2006).
Supratik Majumder, High Performance MPI Libraries for Ethernet, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, (September, 2004).
Paul Willmann, Simulation-Driven Design of High-Performance Programmable Network Interface Cards, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, (May, 2004).
Tinoosh Mohsenin, Design and Evaluation of FPGA-based Gigabit Ethernet/PCI Network Interface Card, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, (May, 2004).
Hyong-Youb Kim, Improving Networking Server Performance with Programmable Network Interfaces, Master of Science, Computer Science, Rice University, (Apr, 2003).
Michael Brogioli, Dynamically Reconfigurable Data Caches in Low Power Computing, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, (Aug, 2002).