The Performance of a Real-time I/O Subsystem for QoS-enabled ORB Middleware by Fred Kuhns, Douglas C. Schmidt, and David L. Levine. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA '99), OMG, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999.

The Design and Performance of a Real-time I/O Subsystem by Fred Kuhns, Douglas C. Schmidt, David Levine, and Rajeev Bector. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS99), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 2-4, 1999.

Applying Adaptive Real-time Middleware to Address Grand Challenges of COTS-based Mission-Critical Real-Time Systems by Christopher D. Gill, Fred Kuhns, David Levine, Douglas C. Schmidt, Bryan S. Doerr, and Richard E. Schantz. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Real-Time Mission-Critical Systems: Grand Challenge Problems, IEEE, Phoenix, Arizona, November 30, 1999.

The Design and Performance of a Pluggable Protocols Framework for Object Request Broker Middleware by Fred Kuhns, Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt, Ossama Othman, and Jeff Parsons. Proceedings of the IFIP Sixth International Workshop on Protocols For High-Speed Networks (PfHSN '99), Salem, MA, August 25--27, 1999.