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POPL
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Dynamically Checking Ownership Policies in Concurrent C/C++ Programs
Concurrent programming errors arise when threads share data incorrectly. Programmers often avoid these errors by using synchronization to enforce a simple ownership policy: data i...
Jean-Phillipe Martin, Michael Hicks, Manuel Costa,...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Ksplice: automatic rebootless kernel updates
Ksplice allows system administrators to apply patches to their operating system kernels without rebooting. Unlike previous hot update systems, Ksplice operates at the object code ...
Jeff Arnold, M. Frans Kaashoek
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Samurai: protecting critical data in unsafe languages
Programs written in type-unsafe languages such as C and C++ incur costly memory errors that result in corrupted data structures, program crashes, and incorrect results. We present...
Karthik Pattabiraman, Vinod Grover, Benjamin G. Zo...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Latency and bandwidth-minimizing failure detectors
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...
Kelvin C. W. So, Emin Gün Sirer
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Removing the memory limitations of sensor networks with flash-based virtual memory
Virtual memory has been successfully used in different domains to extend the amount of memory available to applications. We have adapted this mechanism to sensor networks, where,...
Andreas Lachenmann, Pedro José Marró...