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OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Fidelity and Yield in a Volcano Monitoring Sensor Network
We present a science-centric evaluation of a 19-day sensor network deployment at Reventador, an active volcano in Ecuador. Each of the 16 sensors continuously sampled seismic and ...
Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Jeff Johnso...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Ceph: A Scalable, High-Performance Distributed File System
We have developed Ceph, a distributed file system that provides excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. Ceph maximizes the separation between data and metadata manage...
Sage A. Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Da...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Flight Data Recorder: Monitoring Persistent-State Interactions to Improve Systems Management
Mismanagement of the persistent state of a system--all the executable files, configuration settings and other data that govern how a system functions--causes reliability problems,...
Chad Verbowski, Emre Kiciman, Arunvijay Kumar, Bra...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Splitting Interfaces: Making Trust Between Applications and Operating Systems Configurable
In current commodity systems, applications have no way of limiting their trust in the underlying operating system (OS), leaving them at the complete mercy of an attacker who gains...
Richard Ta-Min, Lionel Litty, David Lie
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Type-Safe Disks
We present the notion of a type-safe disk (TSD). Unlike a traditional disk system, a TSD is aware of the pointer relationships between disk blocks that are imposed by higher layer...
Gopalan Sivathanu, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Erez ...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
BrowserShield: Vulnerability-Driven Filtering of Dynamic HTML
Vulnerability-driven filtering of network data can offer a fast and easy-to-deploy alternative or intermediary to software patching, as exemplified in Shield [43]. In this paper, ...
Charles Reis, John Dunagan, Helen J. Wang, Opher D...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Experiences Building PlanetLab
This paper reports our experiences building PlanetLab over the last four years. It identifies the requirements that shaped PlanetLab, explains the design decisions that resulted fr...
Larry L. Peterson, Andy C. Bavier, Marc E. Fiuczyn...
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
EnsemBlue: Integrating Distributed Storage and Consumer Electronics
EnsemBlue is a distributed file system for personal multimedia that incorporates both general-purpose computers and consumer electronic devices (CEDs). EnsemBlue leverages the cap...
Daniel Peek, Jason Flinn
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Connection Handoff Policies for TCP Offload Network Interfaces
This paper presents three policies for effectively utilizing TCP offload network interfaces that support connection handoff. These policies allow connection handoff to reduce the ...
Hyong-youb Kim, Scott Rixner
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Operating System Profiling via Latency Analysis
Operating systems are complex and their behavior depends on many factors. Source code, if available, does not directly help one to understand the OS's behavior, as the behavi...
Nikolai Joukov, Avishay Traeger, Rakesh Iyer, Char...