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SOSP
2003
ACM
15 years 10 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
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EMSOFT
2001
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Rate-Based Resource Allocation Models for Embedded Systems
: Run-time executives and operating system kernels for embedded systems have long relied exclusively on static priority scheduling of tasks to ensure timing constraints and other c...
Kevin Jeffay, Steve Goddard
AINA
2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Kernel and Application Integrity Assurance: Ensuring Freedom from Rootkits and Malware in a Computer System
Malware and rootkits are serious security vulnerabilities, and they can be designed to be resistant to anti-viral software, or even totally undetectable. This paper described a hi...
Lifu Wang, Partha Dasgupta
IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
On-the-fly kernel updates for high-performance computing clusters
High-performance computing clusters running longlived tasks currently cannot have kernel software updates applied to them without causing system downtime. These clusters miss oppo...
Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu
USENIX
1996
15 years 3 months ago
A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies
The current trend in operating systems research is to allow applications to dynamically extend the kernel to improve application performance or extend functionality, but the most ...
Christopher Small, Margo I. Seltzer