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SOSP
2003
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
EMSOFT
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Compiler-guided register reliability improvement against soft errors
With the scaling of technology, transient errors caused by external particle strikes have become a critical challenge for microprocessor design. As embedded processors are widely ...
Jun Yan, Wei Zhang
DAC
2002
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Scheduler-based DRAM energy management
Previous work on DRAM power-mode management focused on hardware-based techniques and compiler-directed schemes to explicitly transition unused memory modules to low-power operatin...
Victor Delaluz, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T. K...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Defeating return-oriented rootkits with "Return-Less" kernels
Targeting the operating system (OS) kernels, kernel rootkits pose a formidable threat to computer systems and their users. Recent efforts have made significant progress in blocki...
Jinku Li, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Michael C. Grace...
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CF
2011
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
SIFT: a low-overhead dynamic information flow tracking architecture for SMT processors
Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT) is a powerful technique that can protect unmodified binaries from a broad range of vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow and code inj...
Meltem Ozsoy, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael B. Abu-Ghazal...