Scout: a communications-oriented operating system
Allen Brady Montz, David Mosberger, S.W. O'Mally, Larry Peterson, Todd A. Proebsting · 2002
Scout is new communication-centric operating system. The principle scout abstraction (the path) is an attempt to capture all of the operating system infrastructure necessary to insure that a given network connection can achieve high and predictable performance in the face of other connections and other system loads.