The role of the operating system (OS) in managing shared resources such as CPU time, memory, peripherals, and even energy is well motivated and understood [23]. Unfortunately, one...
Large-scale storage systems often hold data for multiple applications and users. A problem in such systems is isolating applications and users from each other to prevent their wor...
Theodore M. Wong, Richard A. Golding, Caixue Lin, ...
Flash crowds and high concentrations of users in wireless LANs (WLANs) cause significant interference problems and unsustainable load at access points. This leads to poor connect...
Amit P. Jardosh, Kimaya Mittal, Krishna N. Ramacha...
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
Unicode is becoming a dominant character representation format for information processing. This presents a very dangerous usability and security problem for many applications. The...
Anthony Y. Fu, Xiaotie Deng, Liu Wenyin, Greg Litt...