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MOBISYS
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
System Services for Ad-Hoc Routing: Architecture, Implementation and Experiences
This work explores several system issues regarding the design and implementation of routing protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks. We examine the routing architecture in current ...
Vikas Kawadia, Yongguang Zhang, Binita Gupta
HOTDEP
2008
107views Hardware» more  HOTDEP 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Reverse-Engineering Drivers for Safety and Portability
Device drivers today lack two important properties: guaranteed safety and cross-platform portability. We present an approach to incrementally achieving these properties in drivers...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
FAST
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Making the Common Case the Only Case with Anticipatory Memory Allocation
We present Anticipatory Memory Allocation (AMA), a new method to build kernel code that is robust to memoryallocation failures. AMA avoids the usual difficulties in handling allo...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Yupu Zhang, Sriram Subra...
RTAS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Hijack: Taking Control of COTS Systems for Real-Time User-Level Services
This paper focuses on a technique to empower commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems with an execution environment, and corresponding services, to support realtime and embedded ap...
Gabriel Parmer, Richard West
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Countering kernel rootkits with lightweight hook protection
Kernel rootkits have posed serious security threats due to their stealthy manner. To hide their presence and activities, many rootkits hijack control flows by modifying control d...
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, Peng Ning