This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...
Operating system enhancements to support real-time and multimedia applications often include specializations and extensions of kernel functionality, as with the kernel HTTP daemon...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Richard Wes...
We propose a primitive, called Pioneer, as a first step towards verifiable code execution on untrusted legacy hosts. Pioneer does not require any hardware support such as secure...
Arvind Seshadri, Mark Luk, Elaine Shi, Adrian Perr...
The prevention of damage caused to a system via malicious executables is a significant issue in the current state of security on Linux operating systems. Several approaches are av...
User applications that move a lot of data across the user-kernel boundary suffer from a serious performance penalty. We provide a framework, Compound System Calls (CoSy), to enhan...
Amit Purohit, Charles P. Wright, Joseph Spadavecch...