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IJCSA
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Experimental Dependability Evaluation of Memory Manager in the Real-time Operating System
The paper presents results of experimental dependability evaluation of the Phoenix-RTOS operating system. Experiments are conducted using a self-developed testing environment and ...
Pawel Pisarczyk
USENIX
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Transparent Checkpoint-Restart of Multiple Processes on Commodity Operating Systems
The ability to checkpoint a running application and restart it later can provide many useful benefits including fault recovery, advanced resources sharing, dynamic load balancing...
Oren Laadan, Jason Nieh
HOTDEP
2008
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14 years 1 months ago
Reverse-Engineering Drivers for Safety and Portability
Device drivers today lack two important properties: guaranteed safety and cross-platform portability. We present an approach to incrementally achieving these properties in drivers...
Vitaly Chipounov, George Candea
NOSSDAV
1991
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Kernel Support for Live Digital Audio and Video
: We have developed a real-time operating system kernel which has been used to support the transmission and reception of streams of live digital audio and video in real-time as par...
Kevin Jeffay, Donald L. Stone, F. Donelson Smith
ACSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Detecting Exploit Code Execution in Loadable Kernel Modules
In current extensible monolithic operating systems, loadable kernel modules (LKM) have unrestricted access to all portions of kernel memory and I/O space. As a result, kernel-modu...
Haizhi Xu, Wenliang Du, Steve J. Chapin
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Towards a Practical, Verified Kernel
In the paper we examine one of the issues in designing, specifying, implementing and formally verifying a small operating system kernel -- how to provide a productive and iterativ...
Kevin Elphinstone, Gerwin Klein, Philip Derrin, Ti...
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Running on the bare metal with GeekOS
Undergraduate operating systems courses are generally taught e of two approaches: abstract or concrete. In the approach, students learn the concepts underlying operating systems t...
David Hovemeyer, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Bobby B...