We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have deļ¬...
Xiangyong Ouyang, David W. Nellans, Robert Wipfel,...
Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Kernel-level attacks or rootkits can compromise the security of an operating system by executing with the privilege of the kernel. Current approaches use virtualization to gain hi...
Monirul I. Sharif, Wenke Lee, Weidong Cui, Andrea ...
Low-Cost test methodologies for Systems-on-Chip are increasingly popular. They dictate which features have to be included on-chip and which test procedures have to be adopted in o...