In most modern operating systems, a process is a -protected abstraction for isolating code and data. This protection, however, is selective. Many common mechanisms—dynamic code ...
When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
The emergence of several communication architectures for System-on-Chips provides designers with a variety of design alternatives. In addition, the need to customize the system ar...
—High-speed content inspection of network traffic is an important new application area for programmable networking systems, and has recently led to several proposals for high-per...
Runtime quality of software, such as availability and throughput, depends on architectural factors and execution environment characteristics (e.g. CPU speed, network latency). Alth...