Exception handling is a powerful abstraction that can be used to help manage errors and support the construction of reliable operating systems. Using exceptions to notify system co...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Ellick Chan,...
A common problem in event-triggered real-time systems is caused by low-priority tasks that are implemented as interrupt handlers interrupting and disturbing high-priority tasks th...
Fabian Scheler, Wanja Hofer, Benjamin Oechslein, R...
Most general-purpose processors provide support for memory pages of large sizes, called superpages. Superpages enable each entry in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to map a...
Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel, Alan L...
Autonomy, adaptability, scalability, and flexible communications are all attributes of agents and multi-agent systems which suggest that they may offer timely solutions for dealin...
Brendan Jennings, Rob Brennan, Rune Gustavsson, Ro...
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...