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ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Protecting Kernel Code and Data with a Virtualization-Aware Collaborative Operating System
Abstract—The traditional virtual machine usage model advocates placing security mechanisms in a trusted VM layer and letting the untrusted guest OS run unaware of the presence of...
Daniela Alvim Seabra de Oliveira, Shyhtsun Felix W...
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Secure virtual architecture: a safe execution environment for commodity operating systems
This paper describes an efficient and robust approach to provide a safe execution environment for an entire operating system, such as Linux, and all its applications. The approach...
John Criswell, Andrew Lenharth, Dinakar Dhurjati, ...
USENIX
2008
13 years 11 months ago
LeakSurvivor: Towards Safely Tolerating Memory Leaks for Garbage-Collected Languages
Continuous memory leaks severely hurt program performance and software availability for garbage-collected programs. This paper presents a safe method, called LeakSurvivor, to tole...
Yan Tang, Qi Gao, Feng Qin
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
14 years 27 days ago
Fast cluster failover using virtual memory-mapped communication
This paper proposes a novel way to use virtual memorymapped communication (VMMC) to reduce the failover time on clusters. With the VMMC model, applications’ virtual address spac...
Yuanyuan Zhou, Peter M. Chen, Kai Li
AICCSA
2006
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  AICCSA 2006»
14 years 11 days ago
An Experimental and Industrial Experience: Avoiding Denial of Service via Memory Profiling
Poor memory management leads to memory leaks, which cause significant performance degradation and failure of software. If ignored, such leaks can potentially cause security breach...
Saeed Abu-Nimeh, Suku Nair, Marco F. Marchetti