In benchmarking I/O systems, it is important to generate, accurately, the I/O access pattern that one is intending to generate. However, timing accuracy ( issuing I/Os at the desi...
Eric Anderson, Mahesh Kallahalla, Mustafa Uysal, R...
Spyware is a rapidly spreading problem for PC users causing significant impact on system stability and privacy concerns. It attaches to extensibility points in the system to ensur...
Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Chad Verbowski, Aaron...
UNIX-derived operating systems have traditionally have a simplistic approach to process synchronization which is unsuited to multiprocessor application. Initial FreeBSD SMP suppor...
This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...
Currently, popular operating systems are unable to support the end-toend real-time requirements of distributed continuous media. Furthermore, the integration of continuous media c...
Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Philippe Robin, Do...