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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
ACST
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A combinatorial group testing method for FPGA fault location
Adaptive fault isolation methods based on discrepancyenabled pairwise comparisons are developed for reconfigurable logic devices. By observing the discrepancy characteristics of m...
Carthik A. Sharma, Ronald F. DeMara
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
Protecting Commodity Operating System Kernels from Vulnerable Device Drivers
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...
Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael M. Swift, C...
VEE
2012
ACM
269views Virtualization» more  VEE 2012»
12 years 24 days ago
SimTester: a controllable and observable testing framework for embedded systems
In software for embedded systems, the frequent use of interrupts for timing, sensing, and I/O processing can cause concurrency faults to occur due to interactions between applicat...
Tingting Yu, Witawas Srisa-an, Gregg Rothermel
HICSS
2010
IEEE
216views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
A Virtualization Architecture for In-Depth Kernel Isolation
Recent advances in virtualization technologies have sparked a renewed interest in the use of kernel and process virtualization as a security mechanism to enforce resource isolatio...
Jiang Wang, Sameer Niphadkar, Angelos Stavrou, Anu...