SEDA: Staged Event Driven Architecture

"SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services", <http://www.sosp.org/2001/papers/welsh.pdf>.
"Comparing the Performance of Web Server Architectures", <https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece845/sp17/docs/pariag-2007.pdf>.

Other designs

"Scheduling Computations on a Software-Based Router", <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~scott/Papers/schedule_sigmetrics_01.pdf>.