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HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Mutual Exclusion
We propose a new concurrent programming model, Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME). In contrast to lock-based programming, and to other programming models built over software transac...
Michael Isard, Andrew Birrell
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities
Recent work on applications ranging from realistic honeypots to stealthier rootkits has speculated about building transparent VMMs
Tal Garfinkel, Keith Adams, Andrew Warfield, Jason...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Web Based Covert File System
We present the idea of a web based covert file system, CovertFS. This file system allows a user to store files covertly on media sharing websites while guaranteeing confidentialit...
Arati Baliga, Joe Kilian, Liviu Iftode
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems
Data centers are the backend for a large number of services that we take for granted today. A significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of these large-scale storage syst...
Lakshmi Ganesh, Hakim Weatherspoon, Mahesh Balakri...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Thread Scheduling for Multi-Core Platforms
As multi-core processors with tens or hundreds of cores begin to proliferate, system optimization issues once faced only by the high-performance computing (HPC) community will bec...
Mohan Rajagopalan, Brian T. Lewis, Todd A. Anderso...
EWSN
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Improving the Energy Efficiency of the MANTIS Kernel
Abstract. Event-driven operating systems such as TinyOS are the preferred choice for wireless sensor networks. Alternative designs following a classical multi-threaded approach are...
Cormac Duffy, Utz Roedig, John Herbert, Cormac J. ...
ERLANG
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Optimising TCP/IP connectivity
With the increased use of network enabled applications and server hosted software systems, scalability with respect to network connectivity is becoming an increasingly important s...
Oscar Hellström
DUX
2007
14 years 3 months ago
AnyPhone: mobile applications for everyone
The mobile phone is one of the most commonly carried pieces of personal, readily accessible digital technologies. Beyond just voice calls, they function as digital cameras, PDAs, ...
Eric Paulos, August Joki, Parul Vora, Anthony Burk...
DFG
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why Interval Arithmetic is so Useful
: Interval arithmetic was introduced by Ramon Moore [Moo66] in the 1960s as an approach to bound rounding errors in mathematical computation. The theory of interval analysis emerge...
Younis Hijazi, Hans Hagen, Charles D. Hansen, Kenn...