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PDCN
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Quality-of-service provisioning system for multimedia transmission in IEEE 802.11 wireless lans
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
Joseph Deng, Hsu-Chun Yen
VEE
2010
ACM
247views Virtualization» more  VEE 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Capability wrangling made easy: debugging on a microkernel with valgrind
Not all operating systems are created equal. Contrasting traditional monolithic kernels, there is a class of systems called microkernels more prevalent in embedded systems like ce...
Aaron Pohle, Björn Döbel, Michael Roitzs...
CC
2006
Springer
118views System Software» more  CC 2006»
15 years 1 months ago
Lightweight Lexical Closures for Legitimate Execution Stack Access
We propose a new language concept called "L-closures" for a running program to legitimately inspect/modify the contents of its execution stack. L-closures are lightweight...
Masahiro Yasugi, Tasuku Hiraishi, Taiichi Yuasa
USS
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Cling: A Memory Allocator to Mitigate Dangling Pointers
Use-after-free vulnerabilities exploiting so-called dangling pointers to deallocated objects are just as dangerous as buffer overflows: they may enable arbitrary code execution. U...
Periklis Akritidis
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Request behavior variations
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
Kai Shen