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PLDI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Practical dynamic software updating for C
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
ITCC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Misuse Case-Based Design and Analysis of Secure Software Architecture
This paper presents an approach to the architectural design and analysis of secure software systems based on the system requirements elicited in the form of use cases and misuse c...
Joshua J. Pauli, Dianxiang Xu
CGO
2003
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Speculative Register Promotion Using Advanced Load Address Table (ALAT)
The pervasive use of pointers with complicated patterns in C programs often constrains compiler alias analysis to yield conservative register allocation and promotion. Speculative...
Jin Lin, Tong Chen, Wei-Chung Hsu, Pen-Chung Yew
PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Checking and inferring local non-aliasing
In prior work [15] we studied a language construct restrict that allows programmers to specify that certain pointers are not aliased to other pointers used within a lexical scope....
Alexander Aiken, Jeffrey S. Foster, John Kodumal, ...
NDSS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Security Analysis and Improvements for IEEE 802.11i
This paper analyzes the IEEE 802.11i wireless networking standard with respect to data confidentiality, integrity, mutual authentication, and availability. Under our threat model,...
Changhua He, John C. Mitchell