Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
We consider the state mapping problem for dynamic software updates and propose a number of approaches that have the potential of automating the state mapping in practical setting....
Rida A. Bazzi, Kristis Makris, Peyman Nayeri, Jun ...
Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
One of the most common forms of security attacks involves exploiting a vulnerability to inject malicious code into an executing application and then cause the injected code to be ...
Wei Hu, Jason Hiser, Daniel Williams, Adrian Filip...