Selected Publications

Performance Characterization Studies

• C. McCurdy, A. L. Cox, and J. Vetter, Investigating the TLB Behavior of High-end Scientific Applications on Commodity Microprocessors.  The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Austin, TX, April, 2008.
• K. Ram, I. Fedeli, A. L. Cox, and S. Rixner, Explaining the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on SIP Proxy Performance.  The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Austin, TX, April, 2008.
• M. Scott and A. L. Cox, An Empirical Study of Message-Passing Overhead.  In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 536--543, September 1987.
  

Virtual Machine Monitors

• 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.
• P. Willmann, J. Shafer, D. Carr, A. Menon, S. Rixner, A. L. Cox, and W. Zwaenepoel, Concurrent Direct Network Access for Virtual Machine Monitors.  In the Proceeding of the 13th 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).
• A. Menon, A. L. Cox, and W. Zwaenepoel. Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, May, 2006. Best paper award.

Performance Analysis and Debugging Tools

• A. Chanda, A. L. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel, Whodunit: Transactional Profiling for Multi-tier Applications. EuroSys 2007: 17-30
• Anupam Chanda, Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Causeway: Support for Controlling and Analyzing the Execution of Multi-tier Applications. Middleware 2005: 42-59
• Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox: Performance Debugging Shared Memory Parallel Programs Using Run-Time Dependence Analysis. SIGMETRICS 1997: 75-87.  Best student paper award.
• Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox: A Performance Debugger for Eliminating Excess Synchronization in Shared-Memory Parallel Programs. MASCOTS 1996: 250-256

Ethernet

• K. Elmeleegy, A. L. Cox, and T. S. E. Ng, Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Count to Infinity in Ethernet Networks.  To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  
• Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng: Etherfuse: An Ethernet Watchdog. SIGCOMM 2007: 253-264
• Khaled Elmeleegy, Alan L. Cox, T. S. Eugene Ng: On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops Ethernet Networks. INFOCOM 2006

Operating Systems

• P. Willmann, S. Rixner, A. L. Cox, An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track 2006, Boston, MA, June, 2006. (Extended version: Technical Report TR06-872)
• Hong Ong, Jeffrey S. Vetter, R. Scott Studham, Collin McCurdy, Bruce Walker, Alan L. Cox: Kernel-level single system image for petascale computing. Operating Systems Review 40(2): 50-54 (2006)
• M. Calhoun, S. Rixner, A. L. Cox, Optimizing Kernel Block Memory Operations, Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, Austin, TX, February, 2006.
• Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: A Portable Kernel Abstraction for Low-Overhead Ephemeral Mapping Management. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track 2005: 223-236
• Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event-Driven Servers. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track 2004: 241-254
• Robert J. Fowler, Alan L. Cox, Sameh Elnikety, Willy Zwaenepoel: Using Performance Reflection in Systems Software. HotOS 2003: 97-102
• Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L. Cox: Practical, Transparent Operating System Support for Superpages. OSDI 2002
• William J. Bolosky, Michael L. Scott, Robert P. Fitzgerald, Robert J. Fowler, Alan L. Cox: NUMA Policies and Their Relation to Memory Architecture. ASPLOS 1991: 212-221
• Alan L. Cox, Robert J. Fowler: The Implementation of a Coherent Memory Abstraction on a NUMA Multiprocessor: Experiences with PLATINUM. SOSP 1989: 32-44

Middleware

• Sara Bouchenak, Alan L. Cox, Steven G. Dropsho, Sumit Mittal, Willy Zwaenepoel: Caching Dynamic Web Content: Designing and Analysing an Aspect-Oriented Solution. Middleware 2006: 1-21
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: A Comparative Evaluation of Transparent Scaling Techniques for Dynamic Content Servers. ICDE 2005: 230-241
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Distributed Versioning: Consistent Replication for Scaling Back-End Databases of Dynamic Content Web Sites. Middleware 2003: 282-304
• Vivek S. Pai, Alan L. Cox, Vijay S. Pai, Willy Zwaenepoel: A Flexible and Efficient Application Programming Interface (API) for a Customizable Proxy Cache. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems 2003
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Conflict-Aware Scheduling for Dynamic Content Applications. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems 2003
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Data Replication Strategies for Fault Tolerance and Availability on Commodity Clusters. DSN 2000: 459-

Distributed Shared Memory Systems

• Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel: Run-time support for distributed sharing in safe languages. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 21(1): 1-35 (2003)
• Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Contention elimination by replication of sequential sections in distributed shared memory programs. PPOPP 2001: 53-61
• Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: The Efeect of Contention on the Scalability of Page-Based Software Shared Memory Systems. LCR 2000: 155-169
• Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel: Run-Time Support for Distributed Sharing in Typed Languages. LCR 2000: 192-206
• Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: OpenMP for Networks of SMPs. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 60(12): 1512-1530 (2000)
• Alan L. Cox, Eyal de Lara, Y. Charlie Hu, Willy Zwaenepoel: A Performance Comparison of Homeless and Home-Based Lazy Release Consistency Protocols in Software Shared Memory. HPCA 1999: 279-283
• Y. Charlie Hu, Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: OpenMP for Networks of SMPs. IPPS/SPDP 1999: 302-
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel: Software DSM Protocols that Adapt between Single Writer and Multiple Writer. HPCA 1997: 261-271
• Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Honghui Lu, Willy Zwaenepoel: Evaluating the Performance of Software Distributed Shared Memory as a Target for Parallelizing Compilers. IPPS 1997: 474-482
• Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel: Compiler and Software Distributed Shared Memory Support for Irregular Applications. PPOPP 1997: 48-56
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Karthick Rajamani, Willy Zwaenepoel: Trade-offs Between False Sharing and Aggregation in Software Distributed Shared Memory. PPOPP 1997: 90-99
• Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox: Java/DSM: A Platform for Heterogeneous Computing. Concurrency - Practice and Experience 9(11): 1213-1224 (1997)
• Honghui Lu, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Quantifying the Performance Differences between PVM and TreadMarks. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 43(2): 65-78 (1997)
• Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: An Integrated Compile-Time/Run-Time Software Distributed Shared Memory System. ASPLOS 1996: 186-197
• Sarita V. Adve, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel: A Comparison of Entry Consistency and Lazy Release Consistency Implementations. HPCA 1996: 26-37
• Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox: Conservative Garbage Collection on DSM Systems. ICDCS 1996: 402-410
• Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Honghui Lu, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Weimin Yu, Willy Zwaenepoel: TreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations. IEEE Computer 29(2): 18-28 (1996)
• Honghui Lu, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Message Passing Versus Distributed Shared Memory on Networks of Workstations. SC 1995
• Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel: An Evaluation of Software-Based Release Consistent Protocols. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 29(2): 126-141 (1995)
• Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Honghui Lu, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel: Software Versus Hardware Shared-Memory Implementation: A Case Study. ISCA 1994: 106-117
• Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Willy Zwaenepoel: TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems. USENIX Winter 1994: 115-132
• Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Evaluation of Release Consistent Software Distributed Shared Memory on Emerging Network Technology. ISCA 1993: 144-155
• John K. Bennett, John B. Carter, Alan L. Cox, E. N. Elnozahy, David B. Johnson, Peter J. Keleher, Willy Zwaenepoel: Distributed shared memory: experience with Munin. ACM SIGOPS European Workshop 1992
• Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Lazy Release Consistency for Software Distributed Shared Memory. ISCA 1992: 13-21

Parallelizing Scientific and Technical Applications

• Y. Charlie Hu, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel: Improving Fine-Grained Irregular Shared-Memory Benchmarks by Data Reordering. SC 2000
• B. Bixby, B. Cook, A. L. Cox, and E. Lee, Computational Experience with Parallel Mixed Integer Programming in a Distributed Environment.  In the Annals of Operations Research special issue on Parallel Optimization,
  Vol. 90 (1999), pp. 19-43.
  
• Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Alan L. Cox: Optimally Synchronizing DOACROSS Loops on Shared Memory Multiprocessors. IEEE PACT 1997: 214-224
• S. K. Gupta, A. A. Schaffer, A. L. Cox, S. Dwarkadas, and W. Zwaenepoel, Integrating Parallelization Strategies for Linkage Analysis.  In Computers and Biomedical Research 28(1995), pp. 116-139.
• S. Dwarkadas, A. A. Schaffer, R. W. Cottingham Jr., A. L. Cox, P. Keleher, and W. Zwaenepoel, Parallelization of General Linkage Analysis Problems.  In Human Heredity 44(1994), pp. 127-141.

Data Mining

• Karthick Rajamani, Alan L. Cox, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Atul Chadha: Efficient Mining for Association Rules with Relational Database Systems. IDEAS 1999: 148-155
• Karthick Rajamani, Sam Yuan Sung, Alan L. Cox: Extending the Applicability of Association Rules. PAKDD 1999: 64-73

Cache Coherence Protocols

• A. L. Cox and R. J. Fowler, Adaptive Cache Coherency for Detecting Migratory Shared Data.  ISCA 1993: 98-108