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PDCN
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Quality-of-service provisioning system for multimedia transmission in IEEE 802.11 wireless lans
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
Joseph Deng, Hsu-Chun Yen
VEE
2010
ACM
247views Virtualization» more  VEE 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Capability wrangling made easy: debugging on a microkernel with valgrind
Not all operating systems are created equal. Contrasting traditional monolithic kernels, there is a class of systems called microkernels more prevalent in embedded systems like ce...
Aaron Pohle, Björn Döbel, Michael Roitzs...
CC
2006
Springer
118views System Software» more  CC 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Lightweight Lexical Closures for Legitimate Execution Stack Access
We propose a new language concept called "L-closures" for a running program to legitimately inspect/modify the contents of its execution stack. L-closures are lightweight...
Masahiro Yasugi, Tasuku Hiraishi, Taiichi Yuasa
USS
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Cling: A Memory Allocator to Mitigate Dangling Pointers
Use-after-free vulnerabilities exploiting so-called dangling pointers to deallocated objects are just as dangerous as buffer overflows: they may enable arbitrary code execution. U...
Periklis Akritidis
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Request behavior variations
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
Kai Shen