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2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Failure Resilience for Device Drivers
Studies have shown that device drivers and extensions contain 3–7 times more bugs than other operating system code and thus are more likely to fail. Therefore, we present a fail...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
NOSSDAV
2004
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Passive inference of path correlation
Overlays have been proposed as a means to improve application performance in many areas, including multimedia streaming and content distribution. Some overlays use parallel transm...
Lili Wang, Jim Griffioen, Kenneth L. Calvert, Sher...
CC
2006
Springer
118views System Software» more  CC 2006»
15 years 5 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
FAST
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Provenance for the Cloud
The cloud is poised to become the next computing environment for both data storage and computation due to its pay-as-you-go and provision-as-you-go models. Cloud storage is alread...
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Peter Macko, Margo I....
USS
2010
14 years 11 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