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SIGSOFT
2001
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Using aspectC to improve the modularity of path-specific customization in operating system code
Layered architecture in operating system code is often compromised by execution path-specific customizations such as prefetching, page replacement and scheduling strategies. Paths...
Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales, Michael J. Feeley, ...
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OSDI
1996
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
The Synergy Between Non-Blocking Synchronization and Operating System Structure
Non-blocking synchronization has significant advantages over blocking synchronization: however, it has not been used to a significant degree in practice. We designed and implement...
Michael Greenwald, David R. Cheriton
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Energy management in mobile devices with the cinder operating system
We argue that controlling energy allocation is an increasingly useful and important feature for operating systems, especially on mobile devices. We present two new low-level ions ...
Arjun Roy, Stephen M. Rumble, Ryan Stutsman, Phili...
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LCN
1997
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Protocol Implementation in a Vertically Structured Operating System
A vertically structured Operating System is one in which neither the “kernel” nor “servers” perform work on behalf of applications – the former because it exists only to...
Richard Black, Paul Barham, Austin Donnelly, Neil ...
ENTCS
2008
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15 years 1 months ago
A Formal Model of Memory Peculiarities for the Verification of Low-Level Operating-System Code
This paper presents our solutions to some problems we encountered in an ongoing attempt to verify the micro-hypervisor currently developed within the Robin project. The problems t...
Hendrik Tews, Tjark Weber, Marcus Völp