Advanced operating systems and kernel applications : techniques and technologies

"This book discusses non-distributed operating systems that benefit researchers, academicians, and practitioners"--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Wiseman, Yair, 1970-, Jiang, Song
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, ©2010.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781605668512
1605668516
9781621989240
1621989240
9781605668505
1605668508
Physical Description1 online resource (xviii, 320 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Kernel stack overflows elimination / Yair Wiseman, Joel Isaacson, Eliad Lubovsky, Pinchas Weisberg
  • 2. Device driver reliability / Michael Swift
  • 3. Identifying systemic threats to kernel data / Arati Baliga, Pandurang Kamat, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode
  • 4. The last line of defense / Art Taylor
  • 5. Swap token / Song Jiang
  • 6. Application of both temporal and spatial localities in the management of kernel buffer cache / Song Jiang
  • 7. Alleviating the thrashing by adding medium-term scheduler / Moses Reuven, Yair Wiseman
  • 8. The Exokernel operating system and active networks / Timothy Leschke
  • 9. Dynamic analysis and profiling of multithreaded systems / Daniel Waddington, Nilabja Roy, Douglas Schmidt
  • 10. Exploiting disk layout and block access history for I/O prefetch / Feng Chen, Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang
  • 11. Sequential file prefetching in Linux / Fengguang Wu
  • 12. Peer-based collaborative caching and prefetching in mobile broadcast / Wei Wu, Kian-Lee Tan
  • 13. Adaptive replacement algorithm templates and EELRU / Yannis Smaragdakis, Scott Kaplan
  • 14. Enhancing the efficiency of memory management in a super-paging environment by AMSQM / Moshe Itshak, Yair Wiseman.