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RTSS
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Soft Real-Time Performance through Better Slack Reclaiming
Modern operating systems frequently support applications with a variety of timing constraints including hard real-time, soft real-time, and best-effort. To guarantee performance, ...
Caixue Lin, Scott A. Brandt
OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CuriOS: Improving Reliability through Operating System Structure
An error that occurs in a microkernel operating system service can potentially result in state corruption and service failure. A simple restart of the failed service is not always...
Francis M. David, Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle,...
ICC
2007
IEEE
141views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
AMAC: Traffic-Adaptive Sensor Network MAC Protocol through Variable Duty-Cycle Operations
—Sensor network MAC protocols usually employ periodic sleep and wakeup, achieving low duty-cycle to save energy and to increase the lifetime of battery-powered sensor devices. Ho...
Sang Hoon Lee, Joon Ho Park, Lynn Choi
IWMM
2007
Springer
146views Hardware» more  IWMM 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Allocation-phase aware thread scheduling policies to improve garbage collection performance
Past studies have shown that objects are created and then die in phases. Thus, one way to sustain good garbage collection efficiency is to have a large enough heap to allow many ...
Feng Xian, Witawas Srisa-an, Hong Jiang
USENIX
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...
Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel