e Synchronization Abstractions “Well, it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.” – Miracle Ma...
Wireless sensor network applications, similarly to other distributed systems, often require a scalable time synchronization service enabling data consistency and coordination. Thi...
Undergraduate operating systems courses are generally taught e of two approaches: abstract or concrete. In the approach, students learn the concepts underlying operating systems t...
David Hovemeyer, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Bobby B...
This paper explores and quantifies garbage collection behavior for three whole heap collectors and generational counterparts: copying semi-space, mark-sweep, and reference counti...
Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKi...
Modern corporations operate in an extremely complex environment and strongly depend on all kinds of information resources across the enterprise. Unfortunately, with the growth of ...