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USENIX
2007
15 years 6 months ago
From Trusted to Secure: Building and Executing Applications That Enforce System Security
Commercial operating systems have recently introduced mandatory access controls (MAC) that can be used to ensure system-wide data confidentiality and integrity. These protections...
Boniface Hicks, Sandra Rueda, Trent Jaeger, Patric...
DSN
2004
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
An Architectural Framework for Providing Reliability and Security Support
This paper explores hardware-implemented error-detection and security mechanisms embedded as modules in a hardware-level framework called the Reliability and Security Engine (RSE)...
Nithin Nakka, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. ...
CCS
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Secure in-VM monitoring using hardware virtualization
Kernel-level attacks or rootkits can compromise the security of an operating system by executing with the privilege of the kernel. Current approaches use virtualization to gain hi...
Monirul I. Sharif, Wenke Lee, Weidong Cui, Andrea ...
ECRTS
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
'QoS Safe' Kernel Extensions for Real-Time Resource Management
General-purpose operating systems are ill-equipped to meet the quality of service (QoS) requirements of complex real-time applications. Consequently, many classes of realtime appl...
Richard West, Jason Gloudon
CLUSTER
2011
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Performance Characterization and Optimization of Atomic Operations on AMD GPUs
—Atomic operations are important building blocks in supporting general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs). For instance, they can be used to coordinate executi...
Marwa Elteir, Heshan Lin, Wu-chun Feng