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SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Surviving sensor network software faults
We describe Neutron, a version of the TinyOS operating system that efficiently recovers from memory safety bugs. Where existing schemes reboot an entire node on an error, Neutron...
Yang Chen, Omprakash Gnawali, Maria A. Kazandjieva...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Automatic device driver synthesis with termite
Faulty device drivers cause significant damage through down time and data loss. The problem can be mitigated by an improved driver development process that guarantees correctness...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Etienne Le S...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
RouteBricks: exploiting parallelism to scale software routers
We revisit the problem of scaling software routers, motivated by recent advances in server technology that enable highspeed parallel processing—a feature router workloads appear...
Mihai Dobrescu, Norbert Egi, Katerina J. Argyraki,...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
ODR: output-deterministic replay for multicore debugging
Reproducing bugs is hard. Deterministic replay systems address this problem by providing a high-fidelity replica of an original program run that can be repeatedly executed to zer...
Gautam Altekar, Ion Stoica
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Helios: heterogeneous multiprocessing with satellite kernels
Helios is an operating system designed to simplify the task of writing, deploying, and tuning applications for heterogeneous platforms. Helios introduces satellite kernels, which ...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy,...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Automatically patching errors in deployed software
We present ClearView, a system for automatically patching errors in deployed software. ClearView works on stripped Windows x86 binaries without any need for source code, debugging...
Jeff H. Perkins, Sunghun Kim, Samuel Larsen, Saman...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Upright cluster services
The UpRight library seeks to make Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) a simple and viable alternative to crash fault tolerance for a range of cluster services. We demonstrate UpRight ...
Allen Clement, Manos Kapritsos, Sangmin Lee, Yang ...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
PRES: probabilistic replay with execution sketching on multiprocessors
Bug reproduction is critically important for diagnosing a production-run failure. Unfortunately, reproducing a concurrency bug on multi-processors (e.g., multi-core) is challengin...
Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou, Weiwei Xiong, Zuoning ...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving application security with data flow assertions
RESIN is a new language runtime that helps prevent security vulnerabilities, by allowing programmers to specify application-level data flow assertions. RESIN provides policy obje...
Alexander Yip, Xi Wang, Nickolai Zeldovich, M. Fra...
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Debugging in the (very) large: ten years of implementation and experience
Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a distributed system that automates the processing of error reports coming from an installed base of a billion machines. WER has collected billion...
Kirk Glerum, Kinshuman Kinshumann, Steve Greenberg...