EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
We describe a new design for authorization in operating systems in which applications are first-class entities. In this design, principals reflect application identities. Access c...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
The vulnerabilities which plague computers cause endless grief to users. Slammer compromised millions of hosts in minutes; a hit-list worm would take under a second. Recently prop...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
The major chip manufacturers have all introduced chip multiprocessing (CMP) and simultaneous multithreading (SMT) technology into their processing units. As a result, even low-end...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
Failure detectors are fundamental building blocks in distributed systems. Multi-node failure detectors, where the detector is tasked with monitoring N other nodes, play a critical...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
As mobile and embedded devices become widespread, the management and configuration of the software in the devices is increasingly turning into a critical issue. OSGi is a busines...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
Data centers are often under-utilized due to over-provisioning as well as time-varying resource demands of typical enterprise applications. One approach to increase resource utili...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2007
ACM
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...