The Instruction Register File (IRF) is an architectural extension for providing improved access to frequently occurring instructions. An optimizing compiler can exploit an IRF by ...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Gary S. Tyson, David B. Wh...
Applications are subject to threat from a number of attack vectors, and limiting their attack surface is vital. By using privilege separation to constrain application access to pro...
Dhananjay Bapat, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Drew ...
In a ubiquitous computing environment, users continuously access computing services and interact with smart spaces, while moving from one place to another. Application migration, t...
Pauline P. L. Siu, Nalini Moti Belaramani, Cho-Li ...
Abstract. The component-based model of code execution imposes some requirements on the software components themselves, and at the same time lays some constraints on the modern run-...
This paper describes a mechanism by which an operating system kernel can determine with certainty that it is safe to execute a binary supplied by an untrusted source. The kernel r...