kernel an operating system
TCP Congestion Control Over 3G Communication Systems: An Experimental Evaluation of New Reno, BIC and Westwood+
White Paper This paper focuses on the UMTS wireless scenario and it reports a campaign of measurements that involved around 3000 flows and more than 40 hours of measurements using three different TCP stacks: TCP NewReno, which is the congestion... [20 Dec 2007]
Vista - business uptake still slow
News Vista 64-bit security features, such as Kernel Patch Protection, which blocks attempts to modify the core OS, would not be effective against certain types of malware, Marcus warned. One reason businesses have not been... [20 Nov 2007]
Intel spurs Linux gadget development
News On Monday the chipmaker is launching its Mobile and Internet Linux Project website, which consolidates a number of new and existing Intel projects to improve the Linux kernel and other open source components. [17 Jul 2007]
Hide'n Seek Revisited - Full Stealth Is Back
White Paper This information cannot be trusted if the kernel or the application programming interfaces are modified by malware. Traditional anti-virus and intrusion detection systems are powerless against this emerging threat, since... [15 Jun 2007]
Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java
White Paper This paper presents an experimental implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that runs inside the kernel of the Solaris operating system. The implementation was... [09 Jun 2007]
Embedded Real Time Linux Kernel Design Using Game Theory and Control Logic
White Paper The system is shown to degenerate to a remote thread execution mechanism of a real-time operating Linux system where the kernel instantiation is control strategy... [18 May 2007]
Making Applications Mobile Under Linux
White Paper The paper also discusses features and enhancements in the Linux kernel needed to implement migration of applications. Application mobility has been an operating system... [18 May 2007]
Sun's Solaris to get that Linux feeling?
News But there's a barrier to code-sharing between the two projects: currently, the core 'kernel' software of Solaris and Linux is under different open source licences, meaning software from one project generally can't be... [10 May 2007]
Apple plugs 25 holes in OS X
News Apple has quashed many bugs detailed during the Month of Apple Bugs and Month of Kernel Bugs projects in previous patch releases. Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X that addresses 25 security flaws in the... [20 Apr 2007]
Reliably Locking System V Shared Memory for User Level Communication in Linux
White Paper That, on the one hand, reduces latency since there is no user - kernel transition needed and, on the other hand, increases bandwidth by avoiding additional intermediate copies. A major trend in recent cluster... [19 Apr 2007]
MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory for an Operating System
White Paper TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking primitives in several key subsystems. The paper also proposes stack-based early release to reduce spurious conflicts on stack memory between... [18 Apr 2007]
Linux Kernel Hash Table Behavior: Analysis and Improvements
White Paper Linux, an open-source POSIX-compliant operating system, relies on hash tables to manage pages, buffers, inodes, and other kernel-level data objects. Why worry about the... [18 Apr 2007]
Real Time or Real Linux?: A Realistic Alternative
White Paper But, as it turns out, the standard Linux kernel can't deliver the hard realtime capabilities - such as predictable response times and microsecond latencies - that a large number of embedded systems demand. [04 Apr 2007]
Encrypted Watermarks and Linux Laptop Security
White Paper The new methods have been implemented as a set of patches to the Linux Kernel series 2.6 and the relevant system tools. The most common way to implement full-disk encryption (as opposed to encrypted file... [04 Apr 2007]
SILK: Scout Paths in the Linux Kernel
White Paper SILK stands for Scout In the Linux Kernel, and is a port of the Scout operating system to run as a Linux kernel module. SILK forms a replacement networking subsystem for... [04 Apr 2007]
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