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2007
IEEE
14 years 14 days ago
Augmenting Branch Predictor to Secure Program Execution
Although there are various ways to exploit software vulnerabilities for malicious attacks, the attacks always result in unexpected behavior in program execution, deviating from wh...
Yixin Shi, Gyungho Lee
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Power Issues Related to Branch Prediction
This paper explores the role of branch predictor organization in power/energy/performance tradeoffs for processor design. We find that as a general rule, to reduce overall energy ...
Dharmesh Parikh, Kevin Skadron, Yan Zhang, Marco B...
EUROPAR
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Efficient Indirect Branch Predictor
In this paper, we present a new hybrid branch predictor called the GoStay2, which can effectively reduce indirect misprediction rates. The GoStay2 has two different mechanisms comp...
Yul Chu, Mabo Robert Ito
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Framework for Detecting Network-based Code Injection Attacks Targeting Windows and UNIX
Code injection vulnerabilities continue to prevail. Attacks of this kind such as stack buffer overflows and heap buffer overflows account for roughly half of the vulnerabilities...
Stig Andersson, Andrew Clark, George M. Mohay, Bra...
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Analysis of Branch Prediction Via Data Compression
Branch prediction is an important mechanism in modern microprocessor design. The focus of research in this area has been on designing new branch prediction schemes. In contrast, v...
I-Cheng K. Chen, John T. Coffey, Trevor N. Mudge