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A Taxonomy of the Linux Network Stack
White Paper That is a rather futile exercise, given the pace of change in the kernel. The only authoritative source on this kind of information is, well, the kernel source:-)[FIXME: Online Reference... [01 Oct 2008]
Using Code Coverage Tools in the Linux Kernel
White Paper In this paper, people learn how to instrument the Linux kernel to generate code coverage data, and how to visualize results with tools from the Linux Test Project (LTP). Defining... [01 Oct 2008]
Release Management Within Open Source Projects
White Paper Three projects are studied, the Linux kernel, Subversion, and the Apache HTTP server. Through application of this classification, this paper identifies areas of... [01 Oct 2008]
Persistent Naming Using Udev in Linux Environments
White Paper In addition, the QLogic FC Linux driver qla2xxx includes comprehensive support of new features (such as udev) included in the Linux 2.6 kernel. This white paper provides a detailed set... [01 Oct 2008]
UNIX and Linux Based Rootkits Techniques and Countermeasures
White Paper This paper reviews techniques currently used by attackers on UNIX and Linux systems with a focus on kernel rootkits. Example rootkits are classified according to code injection and how... [01 Oct 2008]
Low Disturbance Embedded System Tracing With Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation
White Paper This paper presents how the kernel tracer "Linux Trace Toolkit next generation" (LTTng)2 can be used to pinpoint time constraints problems in the Linux kernel and... [01 Oct 2008]
Linux Kernel SCTP : The Third Transport
White Paper This paper provides an overview of the protocol, the UDP-style API and the details of the Linux kernel reference implementation. The detailed implementation discussion is for developers... [01 Oct 2008]
Extending the Linux Operating System for Grid Computing
White Paper If extensions for facilitating grid computing could be built into the operating system kernel, it would simplify the job of grid service implementers in userspace for they could rely on the transparent services of the... [01 Oct 2008]
GISP: A Transparent Superpage Support Framework for Linux
White Paper This paper proposes the design of GISP (Global Information based SuperPage support), a transparent superpage support framework in Linux kernel. Though all of the current main-stream OSs... [01 Oct 2008]
Nswap: A Network Swapping Module for Linux Clusters
White Paper Nswap is implemented as a loadable kernel module for version 2.4 of the Linux kernel. This paper presents Nswap, a network swapping system for heterogeneous Linux... [01 Oct 2008]
Providing a Linux API on the Scalable K42 Kernel
White Paper K42 is an open-source research kernel targeted for 64-bit cache-coherent multiprocessor systems. This paper presents the motivation behind K42, including its goals and overall structure,... [01 Oct 2008]
BootX: The Mac OS X Bootloader
White Paper Particular emphasis will be paid to the boot process of Mac OS X (from the firmware up to early kernel initialization) and its bootloader, BootX. This paper contains a cursory look at... [01 Oct 2008]
Building a Robust Linux Kernel Piggybacking the Linux Test Project
White Paper The Linux kernel is growing at a rapid rate and runs across many architectures and platforms; ensuring that the kernel is reliable, robust and stable is very critical. This... [01 Oct 2008]
Use of Text Mining to Predict Patient Compliance
White Paper With the use of SAS 9.1.3 software, data mining techniques such as clustering, kernel density, linear models and mixed models estimation will be used to define and analyze compliance. The paper will... [19 Sep 2008]
Power-Aware QoS Management in Web Servers
White Paper They implement these algorithms inside the Linux kernel. The instrumented kernel supports multiple client classes with per-class deadlines. This paper investigates... [11 Sep 2008]
