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2007
IEEE
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2007
IEEE
Commodity operating systems achieve good performance by running device drivers in-kernel. Unfortunately, this architecture offers poor fault isolation. This paper introduces micro...
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2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
A growing number of online service providers offer to store customers' photos, email, file system backups, and other digital assets. Currently, customers cannot make informed...
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2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
In this paper, we question whether hypervisors are really acting as a disruptive force in OS research, instead arguing that they have so far changed very little at a technical lev...
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2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
Web applications are important, ubiquitous distributed systems whose current security relies primarily on server-side mechanisms. This paper makes the end-toend argument that the ...
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2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
Optimistic synchronization allows concurrent execution of critical sections while performing dynamic conflict detection and recovery. Optimistic synchronization will increase perf...