Many stateful services use the replicated state machine approach for high availability. In this approach, a service runs on multiple machines to survive machine failures. This pap...
Jacob R. Lorch, Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Ron...
Helios is an operating system designed to simplify the task of writing, deploying, and tuning applications for heterogeneous platforms. Helios introduces satellite kernels, which ...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy,...
In modern Web applications, style formatting and layout calculation often account for a substantial amount of local Web page processing time. In this paper1 , we present two novel...
Kaimin Zhang, Lu Wang, Aimin Pan, Bin Benjamin Zhu
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...
Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael M. Swift, C...
IP multicast is increasingly seen as efficient mode of live content distribution in the Internet to significantly large subscriber bases. Despite its numerous benefits over IP u...