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USENIX
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Towards Availability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software RAID Systems
Benchmarks have historically played a key role in guiding the progress of computer science systems research and development, but have traditionally neglected the areas of availabi...
Aaron B. Brown, David A. Patterson
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Return-oriented programming without returns
We show that on both the x86 and ARM architectures it is possible to mount return-oriented programming attacks without using return instructions. Our attacks instead make use of c...
Stephen Checkoway, Lucas Davi, Alexandra Dmitrienk...
CCR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
LTCP: improving the performance of TCP in highspeed networks
In this paper, we propose Layered TCP (LTCP for short), a set of simple modifications to the congestion window response of TCP to make it more scalable in highspeed networks. LTCP...
Sumitha Bhandarkar, Saurabh Jain, A. L. Narasimha ...
OTM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Measuring Software Systems Scalability for Proactive Data Center Management
The current trend of increasingly larger Web-based applications makes scalability the key challenge when developing, deploying, and maintaining data centers. At the same time, the ...
Nuno A. Carvalho, José Pereira
COMCOM
2006
105views more  COMCOM 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
An observation-based approach towards self-managing web servers
As more business applications have become web enabled, the web server architecture has evolved to provide performance isolation, service differentiation, and QoS guarantees. Vario...
Abhishek Chandra, Prashant Pradhan, Renu Tewari, S...