Architecture and Implementation

• D. Clark. Modularity and Efficiency in Protocol Implementation. RFC 817, July 1982.
• Salzer, Reed, Clark. End-to-end Argument in System Design. ACM TOCS 1984.
• D. Clark. The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols. ACM SigComm Symposium, August 1988
• D. Clark. The Structuring of Systems Using Upcalls. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 1985.

Interrupts

• Mogul & Ramakrishnan. Eliminating Receive Livelock in an Interrupt-Driven Kernel. ACM Transactions on Computing Systems 15(3): 217-252 (1997)
• Salim. Beyond Softnet. 5th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, November 2001.
• Wilcox. I'll Do It Later: Softirqs, Tasklets, Bottom Halves, Task Queues, Work Queues and Timers. Linux.Conf.Au, 2003.

Timers

• Varghese and Lauck. Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Efficient Data Structures for Implementing a Timer Facility. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 1997.
• Peter et al. 30 Seconds is Not Enough!: A Study of Operating System Timer Usage. Eurosys 2008.
• Gleixner and Niehaus. Hrtimers and Beyond: Transforming the Linux Time Subsystems. Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2006.
• Siddha et al. Getting Maximum Mileage Out of Tickless. Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2007.

Routing

• Kohler et al. The Click Modular Router. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, August 2000.
• Dobrescu et al. RouteBricks: Exploiting Parallelism To Scale Software Routers. ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2009.
• Vyatta Corporation. Vyatta Series 3500 Data Sheet.