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SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 6 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
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic and adaptive updates of non-quiescent subsystems in commodity operating system kernels
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...
Kristis Makris, Kyung Dong Ryu
ENTCS
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
An Open System Operational Semantics for an Object-Oriented and Component-Based Language
Object orientation and component-based development have both proven useful for the elaboration of open distributed systems. These paradigms are offered by the Creol language. Creo...
Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Olaf Owe
RTAS
2011
IEEE
13 years 24 days ago
Virtual-CPU Scheduling in the Quest Operating System
This paper describes the scheduling framework for a new operating system called “Quest”. The three main goals of Quest are to ensure safety, predictability and efficiency of ...
Matthew Danish, Ye Li, Richard West
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Operating System Profiling via Latency Analysis
Operating systems are complex and their behavior depends on many factors. Source code, if available, does not directly help one to understand the OS's behavior, as the behavi...
Nikolai Joukov, Avishay Traeger, Rakesh Iyer, Char...