Implementing new operating systems is tedious, costly, and often impractical except for large projects. The Flux OSKit addresses this problem in a novel way by providing clean, we...
Bryan Ford, Godmar Back, Greg Benson, Jay Lepreau,...
As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
Targeting the operating system (OS) kernels, kernel rootkits pose a formidable threat to computer systems and their users. Recent efforts have made significant progress in blocki...
Jinku Li, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Michael C. Grace...
A significant and growing class of location-based mobile applications aggregate position data from individual devices at a server and compute aggregate statistics over these posi...
Raluca A. Popa, Andrew J. Blumberg, Hari Balakrish...
In this paper, we discuss the architecture of a modular UNIX-compatible operating system, MINIX 3, that provides reliability beyond that of most other systems. With nearly the ent...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...