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2014
ACM
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Experiences in the land of virtual abstractions
Abstractions Galen Hunt Principal Researcher Microsoft Research Operating Systems Group 1
Galen C. Hunt
VEE
2012
ACM
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Facilitating inter-application interactions for OS-level virtualization
OS-level virtualization generates a minimal start-up and run-time overhead on the host OS and thus suits applications that require both good isolation and high efficiency. However...
Zhiyong Shan, Xin Wang 0001, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Xiao...
VEE
2012
ACM
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Replacement attacks against VM-protected applications
Process-level virtualization is increasingly being used to enhance the security of software applications from reverse engineering and unauthorized modification (called software p...
Sudeep Ghosh, Jason Hiser, Jack W. Davidson
VEE
2012
ACM
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Adding dynamically-typed language support to a statically-typed language compiler: performance evaluation, analysis, and tradeof
Applications written in dynamically typed scripting languages are increasingly popular for Web software development. Even on the server side, programmers are using dynamically typ...
Kazuaki Ishizaki, Takeshi Ogasawara, José G...
VEE
2012
ACM
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Unpicking the knot: teasing apart VM/application interdependencies
Flexible and efficient runtime design requires an understanding of the dependencies among the components internal to the runtime and those between the application and the runtime...
Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
VEE
2012
ACM
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Protecting applications against TOCTTOU races by user-space caching of file metadata
Time Of Check To Time Of Use (TOCTTOU) race conditions for file accesses in user-space applications are a common problem in Unix-like systems. The mapping between filename and i...
Mathias Payer, Thomas R. Gross
VEE
2012
ACM
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Transparent dynamic instrumentation
Process virtualization provides a virtual execution environment within which an unmodified application can be monitored and controlled while it executes. The provided layer of co...
Derek Bruening, Qin Zhao, Saman P. Amarasinghe
VEE
2012
ACM
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Enhancing TCP throughput of highly available virtual machines via speculative communication
Checkpoint-recovery based virtual machine (VM) replication is an attractive technique for accommodating VM installations with high-availability. It provides seamless failover for ...
Balazs Gerofi, Yutaka Ishikawa
VEE
2012
ACM
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SimTester: a controllable and observable testing framework for embedded systems
In software for embedded systems, the frequent use of interrupts for timing, sensing, and I/O processing can cause concurrency faults to occur due to interactions between applicat...
Tingting Yu, Witawas Srisa-an, Gregg Rothermel
VEE
2012
ACM
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REEact: a customizable virtual execution manager for multicore platforms
With the shift to many-core chip multiprocessors (CMPs), a critical issue is how to effectively coordinate and manage the execution of applications and hardware resources to overc...
Wei Wang, Tanima Dey, Ryan W. Moore, Mahmut Aktaso...