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PLDI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Practical dynamic software updating for C
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
POPL
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mutatis mutandis: safe and predictable dynamic software updating
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
HOTSWUP
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Software Updates: The State Mapping Problem
We consider the state mapping problem for dynamic software updates and propose a number of approaches that have the potential of automating the state mapping in practical setting....
Rida A. Bazzi, Kristis Makris, Peyman Nayeri, Jun ...
PLDI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic software updates: a VM-centric approach
Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
VEE
2006
ACM
142views Virtualization» more  VEE 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Secure and practical defense against code-injection attacks using software dynamic translation
One of the most common forms of security attacks involves exploiting a vulnerability to inject malicious code into an executing application and then cause the injected code to be ...
Wei Hu, Jason Hiser, Daniel Williams, Adrian Filip...