Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and administr...
Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisnie...
A wireless sensor network is characterized as a massively distributed and deeply embedded system. Such a system requires concurrent and asynchronous event handling as a distributed...
The long-running nature of continuous queries poses new scalability challenges for dataflow processing. CQ systems execute pipelined dataflows that may be shared across multiple q...
Mehul A. Shah, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Sirish Chand...
We introduce server operating systems, which are sets of abstractions and runtime support for specialized, highperformance server applications. We have designed and are implementi...
M. Frans Kaashoek, Dawson R. Engler, Gregory R. Ga...
We investigate operating system noise, which we identify as one of the main reasons for a lack of synchronicity in parallel applications. Using a microbenchmark, we measure the no...
Peter H. Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Kazutomo Yoshii, Su...