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TDSC
2010
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On the General Applicability of Instruction-Set Randomization
We describe Instruction-Set Randomization (ISR), a general approach for safeguarding systems against any type of code-injection attack. We apply Kerckhoffs' principle to creat...
Stephen W. Boyd, Gaurav S. Kc, Michael E. Locasto,...
CCR
1998
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13 years 4 months ago
Experimentations with TCP selective acknowledgment
This paper reports our experimentation results with TCP Selective Acknowledgments TCP-Sack, which became an Internet Proposed Standard protocol recently. To understand the perfo...
Renaud Bruyeron, Bruno Hemon, Lixia Zhang
SISW
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Cryptographic File Systems Performance: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Securing data is more important than ever, yet cryptographic file systems still have not received wide use. One barrier to the adoption of cryptographic file systems is that the...
Charles P. Wright, Jay Dave, Erez Zadok
IPPS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Improvement of Power-Performance Efficiency for High-End Computing
Left unchecked, the fundamental drive to increase peak performance using tens of thousands of power hungry components will lead to intolerable operating costs and failure rates. R...
Rong Ge, Xizhou Feng, Kirk W. Cameron
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
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Optimization of data prefetch helper threads with path-expression based statistical modeling
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Tor M. Aamodt, Paul Chow
HPCA
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Speculative instruction validation for performance-reliability trade-off
With reducing feature size, increasing chip capacity, and increasing clock speed, microprocessors are becoming increasingly susceptible to transient (soft) errors. Redundant multi...
Sumeet Kumar, Aneesh Aggarwal