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RTAS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed Resource Kernels: OS Support for End-To-End Resource Isolation
The notion of resource reservation for obtaining real-time scheduling guarantees and enforcement of resource usage has gained strong support in recent years. However, much work on...
Karthik Lakshmanan, Raj Rajkumar
RTAS
2003
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Kernel Support for Open QoS-Aware Computing
Most research on QoS-aware computing considers systems where code is generally partitioned into separately schedulable tasks with associated timing constraints. In sharp contrast ...
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stanko...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
SHARK: Architectural support for autonomic protection against stealth by rootkit exploits
Rootkits have become a growing concern in cyber-security. Typically, they exploit kernel vulnerabilities to gain root privileges of a system and conceal malware’s activities fro...
Vikas R. Vasisht, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee
SIGOPS
2008
170views more  SIGOPS 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
I/O resource management through system call scheduling
A principal challenge in operating system design is controlling system throughput and responsiveness while maximizing resource utilization. Unlike previous attempts in kernel reso...
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Harald R...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy