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2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Microdrivers: A New Architecture for Device Drivers
Commodity operating systems achieve good performance by running device drivers in-kernel. Unfortunately, this architecture offers poor fault isolation. This paper introduces micro...
Vinod Ganapathy, Arini Balakrishnan, Michael M. Sw...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Don't Settle for Less Than the Best: Use Optimization to Make Decisions
Many systems design, configuration, runtime and management decisions must be made from a large set of possible alternatives. Ad hoc heuristics have traditionally been used to make...
Kimberly Keeton, Terence Kelly, Arif Merchant, Cip...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Purely Functional System Configuration Management
System configuration management is difficult because systems evolve in an undisciplined way: packages are upgraded, configuration files are edited, and so on. The management of ex...
Eelco Dolstra, Armijn Hemel
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted?
Optimistic synchronization allows concurrent execution of critical sections while performing dynamic conflict detection and recovery. Optimistic synchronization will increase perf...
Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Web Based Covert File System
We present the idea of a web based covert file system, CovertFS. This file system allows a user to store files covertly on media sharing websites while guaranteeing confidentialit...
Arati Baliga, Joe Kilian, Liviu Iftode