Code injection continues to pose a serious threat to computer systems. Among existing solutions, W X is a notable approach to prevent the execution of injected code. In this paper...
Many sensor nodes contain resource constrained microcontrollers where user level applications, operating system components, and device drivers share a single address space with no...
This discussion paper explores the problems of operating systems support when implementing concurrency controls at the level of the instruction set in processors designed for mult...
Abstract—Exponential bandwidth scaling has been a fundamental driver of the growth and popularity of the Internet. However, increases in bandwidth have been accompanied by increa...
Joseph Chabarek, Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Crist...
The optimistic nature of Transactional Memory (TM) systems can lead to the concurrent execution of transactions that are later found to conflict. Conflicts degrade scalability, a...