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CCS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Puppetnets: misusing web browsers as a distributed attack infrastructure
Most of the recent work on Web security focuses on preventing attacks that directly harm the browser's host machine and user. In this paper we attempt to quantify the threat ...
V. T. Lam, Spyros Antonatos, Periklis Akritidis, K...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
221views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Analyzing the energy efficiency of a database server
Rising energy costs in large data centers are driving an agenda for energy-efficient computing. In this paper, we focus on the role of database software in affecting, and, ultimat...
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
178views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Improving cache lifetime reliability at ultra-low voltages
Voltage scaling is one of the most effective mechanisms to reduce microprocessor power consumption. However, the increased severity of manufacturing-induced parameter variations a...
Zeshan Chishti, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Chris Wilkerso...
MDM
2005
Springer
165views Communications» more  MDM 2005»
14 years 27 days ago
STEP: Self-Tuning Energy-safe Predictors
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
TwinDrivers: semi-automatic derivation of fast and safe hypervisor network drivers from guest OS drivers
In a virtualized environment, device drivers are often run inside a virtual machine (VM) rather than in the hypervisor, for reasons of safety and reduction in software engineering...
Aravind Menon, Simon Schubert, Willy Zwaenepoel