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2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A dynamic operating system for sensor nodes
Sensor network nodes exhibit characteristics of both embedded systems and general-purpose systems. They must use little energy and be robust to environmental conditions, while als...
Chih-Chieh Han, Ram Kumar, Roy Shea, Eddie Kohler,...
USENIX
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
CIDR
2009
139views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2009»
13 years 10 months ago
Inter-Operator Feedback in Data Stream Management Systems via Punctuation
High-volume, high-speed data streams may overwhelm the capabilities of stream processing systems; techniques such as data prioritization, avoidance of unnecessary processing and o...
Rafael Fernández-Moctezuma, Kristin Tufte, ...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
MetaTM//TxLinux: transactional memory for an operating system
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory for an Operating System
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking primit...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...