Operating system research has endeavored to develop micro-kernels that provide modularity, reliability and security improvements over conventional monolithic kernels. However, the...
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
Systems software for clusters typically derives from a multiplicity of sources: the kernel itself, software associated with a particular distribution, site-specific purchased or o...
Ewing L. Lusk, Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Andre...
The Verisoft project aims at the pervasive formal verification of entire computer systems. In particular, the seamless verification of the academic system is attempted. This syst...
Mauro Gargano, Mark A. Hillebrand, Dirk Leinenbach...
This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...