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HOTOS
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Flux OS Toolkit: Reusable Components for OS Implementation
To an unappreciated degree, research both in operating systems andtheirprogramminglanguageshasbeen severely hampered by the lack of cleanly reusable code providing mundanelow-leve...
Bryan Ford, Kevin Van Maren, Jay Lepreau, Stephen ...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Reverse Engineering of Binary Device Drivers with RevNIC
This paper presents a technique that helps automate the reverse engineering of device drivers. It takes a closed-source binary driver, automatically reverse engineers the driverâ€...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
OSDI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Unmodified Device Driver Reuse and Improved System Dependability via Virtual Machines
We propose a method to reuse unmodified device drivers and to improve system dependability using virtual machines. We run the unmodified device driver, with its original operating...
Jan Stoess, Joshua LeVasseur, Stefan Götz, Vo...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Integrating concurrency control and energy management in device drivers
Energy management is a critical concern in wireless sensornets. Despite its importance, sensor network operating systems today provide minimal energy management support, requiring...
Kevin Klues, Vlado Handziski, Chenyang Lu, Adam Wo...