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SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The OKL4 microvisor: convergence point of microkernels and hypervisors
We argue that recent hypervisor-vs-microkernel discussions completely miss the point. Fundamentally, the two classes of systems h in common, and provide similar abstractions. We a...
Gernot Heiser, Ben Leslie
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Towards software-friendly networks
There has usually been a clean separation between networks and the applications that use them. Applications send packets over a simple socket API; the network delivers them. Howev...
Kok-Kiong Yap, Te-Yuan Huang, Ben Dodson, Monica S...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
capDL: a language for describing capability-based systems
Capabilities provide an access control model that can be used to construct systems where safety of protection can be precisely determined. However, in order to be certain of the s...
Ihor Kuz, Gerwin Klein, Corey Lewis, Adam Walker
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The case for active device drivers
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Yanjin Zhu, Gernot Heiser
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
DDE: dynamic data structure excavation
Dynamic Datastructure Excavation (DDE) is a new approach to extract datastructures from C binaries without any need for debugging symbols. Unlike most existing tools, DDE uses dyn...
Asia Slowinska, Traian Stancescu, Herbert Bos
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Suppressing bot traffic with accurate human attestation
Muhammad Asim Jamshed, Wonho Kim, KyoungSoo Park
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
NapSAC: design and implementation of a power-proportional web cluster
Energy consumption is a major and costly problem in data centers. A large fraction of this energy goes to powering idle machines that are not doing any useful work. We identify tw...
Andrew Krioukov, Prashanth Mohan, Sara Alspaugh, L...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Running servers around zero degrees
Data centers are a major consumer of electricity and a significant fraction of their energy use is devoted to cooling the data center. Recent prototype deployments have investigat...
Mikko Pervilä, Jussi Kangasharju
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Trust no one: a decentralized matching service for privacy in location based services
We propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a"trusted" entity. We observe that users of location based ser...
Sharad Jaiswal, Animesh Nandi
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A mobile peer-to-peer system for opportunistic content-centric networking
In this work we present a middleware architecture for a mobile peer-to-peer content distribution system. Our architecture allows wireless content dissemination between mobile node...
Ólafur Ragnar Helgason, Emre A. Yavuz, Sylv...