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HOTNETS
2010
12 years 11 months ago
The home needs an operating system (and an app store)
Abstract-- We argue that heterogeneity is hindering technological innovation in the home--homes differ in terms of their devices and how those devices are connected and used. To ab...
Colin Dixon, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, A. J. ...
AOSD
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Aspect-aware operating system development
The domain of operating systems has often been mentioned as an “ideal candidate” for the application of AOP; fundamental policies we find in these systems, such as synchroniz...
Daniel Lohmann, Wanja Hofer, Wolfgang Schröde...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Versatile Stack Management for Multitasking Sensor Networks
Abstract--The networked application environment has motivated the development of multitasking operating systems for sensor networks and other low-power electronic devices, but thei...
Rui Chu, Lin Gu, Yunhao Liu, Mo Li, Xicheng Lu
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Multiplicity computing: a vision of software engineering for next-generation computing platform applications
New technologies have recently emerged to challenge the very nature of computing: multicore processors, virtualized operating systems and networks, and data-center clouds. One can...
Cristian Cadar, Peter Pietzuch, Alexander L. Wolf
SENSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Enix: a lightweight dynamic operating system for tightly constrained wireless sensor platforms
Enix is a lightweight dynamic operating system for tightly constrained platforms for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Enix provides a cooperative threading model, which is applicab...
Yu-Ting Chen, Ting-Chou Chien, Pai H. Chou
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
G-Free: defeating return-oriented programming through gadget-less binaries
Despite the numerous prevention and protection mechanisms that have been introduced into modern operating systems, the exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities still repr...
Kaan Onarlioglu, Leyla Bilge, Andrea Lanzi, Davide...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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13 years 2 months ago
Linux kernel projects for an undergraduate operating systems course
In this paper, we present a series of programming projects based on the Linux kernel for students in a senior-level undergraduate operating systems course. The projects we describ...
Rob Hess, Paul Paulson
SACMAT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
An architecture for enforcing end-to-end access control over web applications
The web is now being used as a general platform for hosting distributed applications like wikis, bulletin board messaging systems and collaborative editing environments. Data from...
Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Dave King 0002, Thom...
NOMS
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
ROCS: a remotely provisioned OSGi framework for ambient systems
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...
Stéphane Frénot, Noha Ibrahim, Fr&ea...
KBSE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
An automated approach for finding variable-constant pairing bugs
Named constants are used heavily in operating systems code, both as internal flags and in interactions with devices. Decision making within an operating system thus critically de...
Julia L. Lawall, David Lo