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Boman, Simon, and Olof Rutgersson. "Replacing OSE with Real Time capable Linux." Thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-18128.

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For many years OSE has been a common used operating system, with real time extensions enhancements, in embed-ded systems. But in the last decades, Linux has grown and became a competitor to common operating systems and, in recent years, even as an operating system with real time extensions. With this in mind, ÅF was interested in replacing the quite expensive OSE with some distribution of the open source based Linux on a PowerPC MPC8360. Therefore, our purpose with thesis is to implement Linux on the named platform and make some tests to see if it is possible to replace OSE with Linux. Using Linux has several advantages, for example it is free of charge to use and over the years the popularity of Linux within the developer community has resulted in numerous tools and utilities available for free.

As a result, this study shows that Linux with real time extensions on the MPC8360 PowerPC platform is a viable alternative to OSE regarding cost efficiency, flexibility, adaptability and competence available on the market.

Further studies can be done towards benchmarking for I/O systems and implementing support for more hardware on the MPC8360 AF platform.

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Öberg, Jonas. "Comparative study of operating system security using SELinux and Systrace." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-2015.

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This thesis makes a comparative study of the security systemsSystrace (used primarily with OpenBSD) and SELinux (usedexclusively with Linux), trying to answer the question as to whichtype of security is offered by each respective system, and wheneach should be used. The key difference between SELinux andSystrace seems to be their mode of operation, where SELinux,built around the LSM framework in the Linux kernel, works withtype enforcement on files, sockets and other objects, whereasSystrace works on a strict system call basis. The two systems areseen to serve two different purposes which sometimes overlap,but in just as many cases provide solutions for entirely differentquality priorities.

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Kalidindi, Srinivas R. "Linux Operating System Configuration Management Framework: A Scalable and Efficient Approach Using Open Source Utilities." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1193950374.

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Somanathan, Muthuveer. "An initial operating system adaptation heuristic for Swap Cluster Max (SCM)." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Procházka, Boris. "Útoky na operační systém Linux v teorii a praxi." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-237139.

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This master's thesis deals with Linux kernel security from the attacker's point of view. It maps methods and techniques of disguising the computing resources used by today's IT pirates. The thesis presents a unique method of attack directed on the system call interface and implemented in the form of two tools (rootkits). The thesis consists of a theoretical and a practical part. Emphasis is placed especially on the practical part, which manifests the presented information in the form of experiments and shows its use in real life. Readers are systematically guided as far as the creation of a unique rootkit, which is capable of infiltrating the Linux kernel by a newly discovered method -- even without support of loadable modules. A part of the thesis focuses on the issue of detecting the discussed attacks and on effective defence against them.
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Yi, Long. "KernTune: self-tuning Linux kernel performance using support vector machines." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_6921_1249280496.

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Self-tuning has been an elusive goal for operating systems and is becoming a pressing issue for modern operating systems. Well-trained system administrators are able to tune an operating system to achieve better system performance for a specific system class. Unfortunately, the system class can change when the running applications change. The model for self-tuning operating system is based on a monitor-classify-adjust loop. The idea of this loop is to continuously monitor certain performance metrics, and whenever these change, the system determines the new system class and dynamically adjusts tuning parameters for this new class. This thesis described KernTune, a prototype tool that identifies the system class and improves system performance automatically. A key aspect of KernTune is the notion of Artificial Intelligence oriented performance tuning. Its uses a support vector machine to identify the system class, and tunes the operating system for that specific system class. This thesis presented design and implementation details for KernTune. It showed how KernTune identifies a system class and tunes the operating system for improved performance.

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Liu, Zhen. "A lightweight intrusion detection system for the cluster environment." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2003. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07102003-152642/unrestricted/ZhenLiu%5Fthesis.pdf.

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Nilsson, Christoffer, and Marcus Nilsson. "Installationsgränssnitt under Linux och Windows XP utifrån ISO 9241." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3955.

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This thesis investigates how different Linux-distributions installation interface relate to the ISO 9241 standard, parts 12 and 13, and how they relate to the installation interface of Windows XP, with the hypothesis: "There is a Linux-distribution whose installation interface according to applicable HCIrecommendations is equivalent to that of Windows XP." With the checklists provided by ISO 9241 an empirical study has been made, and so comparable measurements of how well the Linux-distributions and Windows XP follows the recommendations of the standard was obtained. By comparing the results from the tests similarities and differences between the installation interfaces can be deducted. As the result and the conclusion shows there are Linux-distributions whose installation interface, according to the applicable HCI-recommendations, are equivalent to that of Windows XP.
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Motara, Yusuf Moosa. "File integrity checking." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007701.

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This thesis looks at file execution as an attack vector that leads to the execution of unauthorized code. File integrity checking is examined as a means of removing this attack vector, and the design, implementation, and evaluation of a best-of-breed file integrity checker for the Linux operating system is undertaken. We conclude that the resultant file integrity checker does succeed in removing file execution as an attack vector, does so at a computational cost that is negligible, and displays innovative and useful features that are not currently found in any other Linux file integrity checker.
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Koya, Bharath Kumar. "Sched-ITS: An Interactive Tutoring System to Teach CPU Scheduling Concepts in an Operating Systems Course." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1495656458526149.

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Tsegaye, Melekam Asrat. "A comparative study of the Linux and windows device driver architecture with a focus on IEEE1394 (high speed serial bus) drivers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004829.

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New hardware devices are continually being released to the public by hardware manufactures around the world. For these new devices to be usable under a PC operating system, device drivers that extend the functionality of the target operating system have to be constructed. This work examines and compares the device driver architectures currently in use by two of the most widely used operating systems, Microsoft’s Windows and Linux. The IEEE1394 (high speed serial bus) device driver stacks on each operating system are examined and compared as an example of a major device driver stack implementation, including driver requirements for the upcoming IEEE1394.1 bridging standard.
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Bissyande, Tegawende. "Contributions for improving debugging of kernel-level services in a monolithic operating system." Phd thesis, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00821893.

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Alors que la recherche sur la qualité du code des systèmes a connu un formidable engouement, les systèmes d'exploitation sont encore aux prises avec des problèmes de fiabilité notamment dus aux bogues de programmation au niveau des services noyaux tels que les pilotes de périphériques et l'implémentation des systèmes de fichiers. Des études ont en effet montré que chaque version du noyau Linux contient entre 600 et 700 fautes, et que la propension des pilotes de périphériques à contenir des erreurs est jusqu'à sept fois plus élevée que toute autre partie du noyau. Ces chiffres suggèrent que le code des services noyau n'est pas suffisamment testé et que de nombreux défauts passent inaperçus ou sont difficiles à réparer par des programmeurs non-experts, ces derniers formant pourtant la majorité des développeurs de services. Cette thèse propose une nouvelle approche pour le débogage et le test des services noyau. Notre approche est focalisée sur l'interaction entre les services noyau et le noyau central en abordant la question des "trous de sûreté" dans le code de définition des fonctions de l'API du noyau. Dans le contexte du noyau Linux, nous avons mis en place une approche automatique, dénommée Diagnosys, qui repose sur l'analyse statique du code du noyau afin d'identifier, classer et exposer les différents trous de sûreté de l'API qui pourraient donner lieu à des fautes d'exécution lorsque les fonctions sont utilisées dans du code de service écrit par des développeurs ayant une connaissance limitée des subtilités du noyau. Pour illustrer notre approche, nous avons implémenté Diagnosys pour la version 2.6.32 du noyau Linux. Nous avons montré ses avantages à soutenir les développeurs dans leurs activités de tests et de débogage.
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Carbone, Martim d'Orey Posser de Andrade. "Framework de Kernel para um sistema de segurança imunologica." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/276520.

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Orientador: Paulo Licio de Geus
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação
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Resumo: O crescimento alarmante da quantidade e da sofisticação dos ataques aos quais estão sujeitos os sistemas computacionais modernos traz à tona a necessidade por novos sistemas de segurança mais eficientes. Na natureza, há um sistema biológico que realiza esta tarefa com notável eficácia: o sistema imunológico humano. Este sistema é capaz de garantir a sobrevivência de um ser humano por décadas, além de ser capaz de aprender sobre novas ameaças e criar defesas para combatê-Ias. Sua eficácia, somada à semelhança entre o cenário da segurança biológica e o da segurança computacional, motivou a criação do projeto Imuno, cujo objetivo é a construção de um sistema de segurança para computadores baseado nos princípios do sistema imunológico humano. Após o estudo inicial, a modelagem conceitual do sistema e a implementação de protótipos restritos de certas funcionalidades do sistema Imuno, este trabalho tem como objetivo avançar rumo à construção de um sistema de segurança imunológico completo, de escopo geral. Para isso, torna-se necessária a implementação de uma framework em nível de sistema operacional, que suporte as funcionalidades relacionadas à prevenção, detecção e resposta que serão utilizadas por este sistema de segurança. Projetada para o kernel Linux 2.6, esta framework é composta por algumas frameworks pré-existentes, como Lima Security Modules (LSM), Netfilter, Class-based Kernel Resource Management (CKRM), BSD Secure Levels (SEClvl) e UndoFS, ajustadas de acordo com os requisitos levantados para a framework; e somadas a uma nova arquitetura de ganchos multifuncionais. Esta arquitetura expande a infraestrutura nativa dos ganchos LSM, tornando-os flexíveis e genéricos o bastante para serem utilizados com outras funcionalidades de segurança além de controle de acesso, como detecção e resposta, além de poderem ser controlados do espaço de usuário em tempo real. Um protótipo foi implementado para a versão 2.6.12 do Linux e submetido a testes, visando avaliar tanto o impacto de desempenho gerado como também o seu comportamento em um cenário de ataque simulado. Os resultados destes testes são expostos no final deste trabalho, junto com as conclusões gerais sobre o projeto e propostas de extensão
Abstract: The alarming growth in the quantity and the sophistication of the attacks that threaten modem computer systems shows the need for new, more efticient security systems. In nature, there is a biological system that accomplishes this task with a remarkable efticiency: the human immune system. Not only this system is capable of assuring the survival of a human being for decades; it is also capable of learning about new threats and creating defenses to fight them. Its efticiency, combined with the similarity that exists between the biological and the computer security problems, has motivated the creation of the Imuno project, whose goal is the construction of a computer security system based on the principIes of the human immune system. After initial studies, the system's conceptual modeling and the implementation of prototypes of certain Imuno functionalities, this project's goal is to advance towards the construction of a complete, general scope immune security system. In order to accomplish that, the implementation of an operating system leveI framework that supports the prevention, detection and response security functionalities to be used by such a system is necessary. Designed for the 2.6 Linux kernel, this framework is composed of several pre-existing frameworks, such as Linux Security Modules (L8M), Netfilter, Class-based Kernel Resource Management (CKRM), BSD Secure Levels (8EClvl) and UndoFS, adjusted according to the framework requirements; and supplemented by a new multifunctional hook architecture. This architecture expands L8M's native hook infrastructure, making them flexible and generic enough to be used by other security functionalities beyond access control, such as detection and response, and also capable of being controlled from userspace in real-time. A prototype has been implemented for Linux version 2.6.12 and submitted to various tests, aiming to evaluate the performance overhead it creates and its behavior in a simulated attack situation. These tests' results are shown at the end of this document, along with a general conclusion about the project and extension proposals
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Johansson, Gustav. "Real-Time Linux Testbench on Raspberry Pi 3 using Xenomai." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-235484.

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Test benches are commonly used to simulate events to an embedded system for validation purposes. Microcontrollers can be used for making test benches and can be programmed with a bare-metal style, i.e. without an Operating System (OS), for simple cases. If the test bench would be too complex for a microcontroller, then a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) could be used instead of a more complex hardware. A RTOS has limited functionalities to guarantee high predictability. A General-Purpose Operating System (GPOS) has a vast number of functionalities but has low predictability. The literature study looks therefore into approaches to improve the real-time predictability of Linux. The result of the literature study finds an approach called Xenomai Cobalt to be the optimal solution, considering the target usecase and project resources. The Xenomai Cobalt approach was evaluated on a Raspberry Pi (RPi) 3 using its General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins and a latency test. An application was written using Xenomai's Application Programming Interface (API). The application used the GPIO pins to read from a function generator and to write to an oscilloscope. The measurements from the oscilloscope were then compared to the measurements done by the application. The result showed the measured dierences between the RPi 3 and the oscilloscope. The result of the measurements showed that reading varied 66:20 μs, and writing varied 56:20 μs. The latency test was executed with a stress test and the worst measured latency was 82 μs. The resulting measured dierences were too high for the project requirements. However, the majority of the measurements were much smaller than the worstcases with 23:52 μs for reading and 34:05 μs for writing. This means the system could be used better as a rm real-time system instead of a hard real-time system.
Testbänkar används ofta för att simulera händelser till ett inbyggt system för validering. Till simpla testbänkar kan mikrokontroller användas. För mer avancerade testbänkar kan RTOS användas på mer komplex hårdvara. RTOS har begränsad funktionalitet för att garantera en hög förutsägbarhet. GPOS har stora mängder funktionaliteter men har istället en låg förutsägbarhet.Litteraturstudien undersökte därför möjligheterna till att få Linux att hantera realtid. Resultatet av litteraturstudien fann ett tillvägagångssätt vid namn Xenomai Cobalt att vara den optimala lösningen för att få Linux till Real-Time Linux.Xenomai Cobalt utvärderades på en RPi 3 med hjälp av dess GPIO-pinnar och ett fördröjningstest. En applikation skrevs med Xenomai’s API. Applikationen använde GPIO-pinnarna till att läsa från en funktionsgenerator och till att skriva till ett oskilloskop. Mätningarna från oskilloskopet jämfördes sen med applikationens mätningar.Resultatet visade mätskillnaderna mellan RPi 3 och oskilloskopet med systemet i viloläge. Resultatet av mätningarna visade att läsningen varierade med 66.20 µs och skrivandet med 56.20 µs. Fördröjningstestet utfördes medstresstestning och visade den värsta uppmätta fördröjningen, resultatet blev82 µs.De resulterande mätskillnaderna blev dock för höga för projektets krav. Majoriteten av mätningarna var mycket mindre än de värsta fallen med 23.52 µs för läsning och 34.05 µs för skrivning. Detta innebar att systemet kan användas med bättre precision som ett fast realtidssystem istället för ett hårt realtidssystem.
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Jones, Robert M. "Content Aware Request Distribution for High Performance Web Service: A Performance Study." PDXScholar, 2002. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2662.

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The World Wide Web is becoming a basic infrastructure for a variety of services, and the increases in audience size and client network bandwidth create service demands that are outpacing server capacity. Web clusters are one solution to this need for highperformance, highly available web server systems. We are interested in load distribution techniques, specifically Layer-7 algorithms that are content-aware. Layer- 7 algorithms allow distribution control based on the specific content requested, which is advantageous for a system that offers highly heterogenous services. We examine the performance of the Client Aware Policy (CAP) on a Linux/Apache web cluster consisting of a single web switch that directs requests to a pool of dual-processor SMP nodes. We show that the performance advantage of CAP over simple algorithms such as random and round-robin is as high as 29% on our testbed consisting of a mixture of static and dynamic content. Under heavily loaded conditions however, the performance decreases to the level of random distribution. In studying SMP vs. uniprocessor performance using the same number of processors with CAP distribution, we find that SMP dual-processor nodes under moderate workload levels provide equivalent throughput as the same number of CPU’s in a uniprocessor cluster. As workload increases to a heavily loaded state however, the SMP cluster shows reduced throughput compared to a cluster using uniprocessor nodes. We show that the web cluster’s maximum throughput increases linearly with the addition of more nodes to the server pool. We conclude that CAP is advantageous over random or round-robin distribution under certain conditions for highly dynamic workloads, and suggest some future enhancements that may improve its performance.
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Piano, Matteo. "Multi-Architecture Binary Rewriter to Prevent ROP Arbitrary Code Execution." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-220524.

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Despite the increasing attention to the topic of computer security, the amount of vulnerable software services is still high. The exploitation of a common vulnerability like memory management bugs brought to the development of an attack known as Return Oriented Programming (ROP). Such technique employs malicious memory injections to hijack the control flow of the targeted application and execute an arbitrary series of instructions. This thesis explores the design and implementation of a static binary rewriting tool able to instrument applications compiled for the Linux operating system in order to offer protection against ROP exploitation on x86 and ARM platforms. The instrumentation is achieved by extracting re-compilable assembler code from executable binary files which is then processed and modified. The effectiveness of such solution is tested with a selection of benchmarking utilities in order to evaluate the cost in terms of performance caused by its employment. The results obtained from these experiments show that on average the added overheads are acceptably low and, consequently, the proposed tool is a valid solution to improve the security of vulnerable applications when the original source code is not available.
Trots den ökande uppmärksamheten på ämnet datasäkerhet är mängden sårbara mjukvarutjänster fortfarande stor. Utnyttjandet av en vanlig sårbarhet som minneshanteringsfel har lett till utvecklingen av en attack som kallas Return Oriented Programming (ROP). Denna teknik utnyttjar skadliga minnesinjektioner för att ändra kontrollflödet för den riktade applikationen och utföra en godtycklig serie instruktioner. Detta exjobb undersöker utformningen och genomförandet av ett verktyg för statisk binär omskrivning som kan användas för att instrumentera applikationer för Linux-operativsystemet för att erbjuda skydd mot ROP-exploatering på x86- och ARM-plattformar. Instrumentering uppnås genom att extrahera återkompilerbar assemblerkod från exekverbara binära filer som sedan behandlas och modifieras. Effektiviteten av sådan lösning testas med ett urval av benchmarkingverktyg för att utvärdera kostnaden när det gäller prestanda som orsakas av dess användning. Resultaten från dessa experiment visar att de extra kostnaderna i genomsnitt är acceptabelt låga och, följaktligen, är det föreslagna verktyget en giltig lösning för att förbättra säkerheten för sårbara applikationer när den ursprungliga källkoden inte är tillgänglig.
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RAO, SUDHINDRA R. "DATA MANAGEMENT IN DEFER CACHE - IMPLEMENTATION AND ANALYSIS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1066409021.

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Bissyandé, Tegawendé F. "Contributions à l'Amélioration du Débogage des Services Noyau dans un Système d'Exploitation Monolithique." Phd thesis, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00808877.

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Alors que la recherche sur la qualité du code des systèmes a connu un formidable engouement, les systèmes d'exploitation sont encore aux prises avec des problèmes de fiabilité notamment dûs aux bogues de programmation au niveau des services noyaux tels que les pilotes de périphériques et l'implémentation des systèmes de fichiers. Des études ont en effet montré que que chaque version du noyau Linux contient entre 600 et 700 fautes, et que la propension des pilotes de périphériques à contenir des erreurs est jusqu'à sept fois plus élevée que toute autre partie du noyau. Ces chiffres suggèrent que le code des services noyau n'est pas suffisamment testé et que de nombreux défauts passent inaperçus ou sont difficiles à réparer par des programmeurs non-experts, ces derniers formant pourtant la majorité des développeurs de services. Cette thèse propose une nouvelle approche pour le débogage et le test des services noyau. Notre approche est focalisée sur l'interaction entre les services noyau et le noyau central en abordant la question des "trous de sûreté" dans le code de définition des fonctions de l'API du noyau. Dans le contexte du noyau Linux, nous avons mis en place une approche automatique, dénommée Diagnosys, qui repose sur l'analyse statique du code du noyau afin d'identifier, classer et exposer les différents trous de sûreté de l'API qui pourraient donner lieu à des fautes d'exécution lorsque les fonctions sont utilisées dans du code de service écrit par des développeurs ayant une connaissance limitée des subtilités du noyau. Pour illustrer notre approche, nous avons implémenté Diagnosys pour la version 2.6.32 du noyau Linux. Nous avons montré ses avantages à soutenir les développeurs dans leurs activités de tests et de débogage.
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BETTI, EMILIANO. "Satisfying hard real-time constraints using COTS components." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/1310.

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L'utilizzo di componenti COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) è sempre più comune nella produzione di sistemi embedded real-time. Prodotti commerciali, come periferiche di Input/Output e bus di sistema, vengono utilizzati in sistemi real-time al fine di ridurre i costi, il tempo di produzione, ed aumentare le performance. Sfortunatamente, hardware e sistemi operativi COTS sono progettati principalmente per ottimizzare le performance, ma con poca attenzione verso determinismo, predicibilità ed affidabilità. Per questa ragione, molte problematiche devono ancora essere affrontate prima di un loro impiego in sistemi real-time ad alta criticita'. In questa tesi abbiamo centrato la nostra attenzione su alcune delle piu' importanti sorgenti di impredicibilita' che devono essere rimosse al fine di integrare hardware e software COTS in sistemi hard real-time. Come prima cosa abbiamo sviluppato ASMP-Linux, una variante di Linux che minimizza overhead e latenza del sistema operativo. Successivamente abbiamo progettato ed implementato un nuovo sistema di gestione dell'I/O, basato sul Real-Time Bridge, un nuovo componente hardware che fornisce isolamento temporale sui bus COTS e rimuove le interferenze fra periferiche di I/O. E' stato anche sviluppato un Multi-Flow Real-Time Bridge per assicurare predicibilita' nel caso di periferiche condivise. Infine abbiamo proposto PREM, un nuovo modello di esecuzione per sistemi real-time che elimina le interferenze fra periferiche e CPU, e quelle fra processi ad alta criticita' ed interruzioni hardware. Per ognuna delle nostre soluzioni saranno descritti in dettaglio gli aspetti teorici, l'implementazione dei prototipi ed i risultati sperimentali.
Real-time embedded systems are increasingly being built using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components such as mass-produced peripherals and buses to reduce costs, time-to-market, and increase performance. Unfortunately, COTS hardware and operating systems are typically designed to optimize average performance, instead of determinism, predictability, and reliability, hence their employment in high criticality real-time systems is still a daunting task. In this thesis, we addressed some of the most important sources of unpredictability which must be removed in order to integrate COTS hardware and software into hard real-time systems. We first developed ASMP-Linux, a variant of Linux, capable of minimizing both operating system overhead and latency. Next, we designed and implemented a new I/O management system, based on real-time bridges, a novel hardware component that provides temporal isolation on the COTS bus and removes the interference among I/O peripherals. A multi-flow real-time bridge has been also developed to address interperipheral interference, allowing predictable device sharing. Finally, we propose PREM, a new execution model for real-time systems which eliminates interference between peripherals and the CPU, as well as interference between a critical task and driver interrupts. For each of our solutions, we will describe in detail theory aspects, as well as prototype implementations and experimental measurements.
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Bartram, Scott A. "Supporting a Trusted Path for the LINUX operating system." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA380852.

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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.
Thesis advisors: Irvine, Cynthia E. ; Clark, Paul C. "June 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63). Also Available online.
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Shelton, Benjamin H. "Popcorn Linux: enabling efficient inter-core communication in a Linux-based multikernel operating system." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23119.

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As manufacturers introduce new machines with more cores, more NUMA-like architectures, and more tightly integrated heterogeneous processors, the traditional abstraction of a monolithic OS running on a SMP system is encountering new challenges.  One proposed path forward is the multikernel operating system.  Previous efforts have shown promising results both in scalability and in support for heterogeneity.  However, one effort\'s source code is not freely available (FOS), and the other effort is not self-hosting and does not support a majority of existing applications (Barrelfish).

In this thesis, we present Popcorn, a Linux-based multikernel operating system.  While Popcorn was a group effort, the boot layer code and the memory partitioning code are the author\'s work, and we present them in detail here.  To our knowledge, we are the first to support multiple instances of the Linux kernel on a 64-bit x86 machine and to support more than 4 kernels running simultaneously.

We demonstrate that existing subsystems within Linux can be leveraged to meet the design goals of a multikernel OS.  Taking this approach, we developed a fast inter-kernel network driver and messaging layer.  We demonstrate that the network driver can share a 1 Gbit/s link without degraded performance and that in combination with guest kernels, it meets or exceeds the performance of SMP Linux with an event-based web server.  We evaluate the messaging layer with microbenchmarks and conclude that it performs well given the limitations of current x86-64 hardware.  Finally, we use the messaging layer to provide live process migration between cores.
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Ravichandran, Akshay Giridhar. "Single System Image in a Linux-based Replicated Operating System Kernel." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/56654.

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Recent trends in the computer market suggest that emerging computing platforms will be increasingly parallel and heterogeneous, in order to satisfy the user demand for improved performance and superior energy savings. Heterogeneity is a promising technology to keep growing the number of cores per chip without breaking the power wall. However, existing system software is able to cope with homogeneous architectures, but it was not designed to run on heterogeneous architectures, therefore, new system software designs are necessary. One innovative design is the multikernel OS deployed by the Barrelfish operating system (OS) which partitions hardware resources to independent kernel instances that communicate exclusively by message passing, without exploiting the shared memory available amongst different CPUs in a multicore platform. Popcorn Linux implements an extension of the multikernel OS design, called replicated-kernel OS, with the goal of providing a Linux-based single system image environment on top of multiple kernels, which can eventually run on different ISA processors. A replicated-kernel OS replicates the state of various OS sub-systems amongst kernels that cooperate using message passing to distribute or access various services uniquely available on each kernel. In this thesis, we present mechanisms to distribute signals, namespaces, inter-thread synchronizations and socket state replication. These features are built on top of the existing messaging layer, process or thread migration and address space consistency protocol to provide the application with an illusion of single system image and developers with the SMP programming environment they are most familiar with. The mechanisms developed were unit tested with micro benchmarks to validate their correctness and to measure the gained speed up or additive overhead. Real-world applications were also used to benchmark the developed mechanisms on homogeneous and on heterogeneous architectures. It is found that the contributed Popcorn synchronization mechanism exhibits overhead compared to vanilla Linux on multicore as Linux's equivalent mechanisms are tightly coupled with underlying hardware cache coherency protocol, therefore, faster than software message passing. On heterogeneous platforms, the developed mechanisms allow to transparently map each portion of the application to the processor in the platform on which the execution is faster. Optimizations are recommended to further improve the performance of the proposed synchronization mechanism. However, optimizations may force the userspace application and libraries to be rewritten in order to decouple their synchronization mechanisms of shared memory, therefore losing transparency, which is one of the primary goals of this work.
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Ratto, Matt. "The pressure of openness : the hybrid work of linux free/open source kernel developers /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3089478.

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Hjern, Gunnar. "The modernization of a DOS-basedtime critical solar cell LBICmeasurement system." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-74322.

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LBIC is a technique for scanning the local quantum efficiency of solar cells. This kind of measurements needs a highly specialized, and time critical controlling software. In 1996 the client, professor Markus Rinio, constructed an LBIC system, and wrote the controlling software as a Turbo-Pascal 7.0 application, running under the MS-DOS 6.22 operating system. By now (2018) both the software and several hardware components are in dire need to be modernized. This thesis thoroughly describes several important aspects of this work, and the considerations needed for a successful result. This includes both very foundational choices about the software architecture, the choice of suitable operating system, the threading model, and the adaptation to new hardware with vastly different behavior. The project also included a new hardware module for position reports and instrument triggering, as well as several adaptations to transform the DOS-based LBIC software into a pleasant modern GUI application.
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Braithwaite, Stephen. "Queuing disciplines on Linux made easy." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Sciences, 2006. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001280/.

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[Abstract]: This is a project to implement a Mice and Elephants queueing discipline, which favoursshort flows over long flows, on Linux. The project has three aims. The first aim is toproduce a prototype Mice and Elephants router for the purpose of further evaluation ofthe Mice and Elephants strategy and the Shortest Job First strategy. The second aim is tomake a contribution to Linux by making my implementation as code that is both fit fordistribution with Linux and useful in a small business or domestic setting. The third aimis to explore and document a method of creating Linux queueing disciplines in general.
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Magnusson, Ulf. "A Linux-based, Web-oriented operating system designed to boot quickly." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, RTSLAB - Laboratoriet för realtidssystem, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-73492.

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This thesis describes the design and implementation of a Linux-based, Web-oriented operating system called Awesom-O, designed with a focus on short boot time and small disk footprint. Among other techniques for lowering boot time, a semi-automatic method for generating a Linux kernel of minimal size for a given platform is developed, making use of an interpreter for the Linux kernel’s configuration language, Kconfig. The boot process of the finished system is analyzed to identify limiting factors in lowering its boot time further, and techniques for overcoming these are suggested. Excluding the initial BIOS stage of the boot process, the boot time of the finished system—up until it is idling inside the web browser interface waiting for user input—is 3.8 seconds (2.1 seconds to a shell prompt, 1.7 seconds in the kernel) on an Acer Travelmate 8200 laptop with an Intel Core Duo CPU at 2.0 GHz and a Momentus 5400.2 SATA (ST9120821AS) hard drive; 2.4 seconds (1.6 seconds to a shell prompt, 1.1 seconds in the kernel) on a Celsius M460 workstation with an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU at 2.5 GHz and a Barracuda 7200.11 SATA hard drive (ST3500320AS); 4.6 and 4.0 seconds respectively for the same systems when booting from a USB 2.0 device (a ChipsBank CBM2080 USB 2.0 stick); and 12.6 seconds on the BeagleBoard (8 seconds in the bootloader—an obvious area for future improvement). The Web functionality in Awesom-O is implemented atop the Opera Linux Devices SDK: a software framework for integrating web browser functionality in small Linux-based systems.
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Kacar, Mehmet Nazir. "A Soho Router Implementation On Motorola Mcf5272 Processor And Uclinux Operating System." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/4/1123884/index.pdf.

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Recently, various special purpose processors have been developed and are frequently being used for different specialized tasks. Prominent among these are the communication processors, which are generally used within an embedded system environment. Such processors can run relatively advanced and general purpose operating systems such as uCLinux, which is a freely available embedded Linux distribution. In this work, a prototype SoHo (Small office / Home office) router is designed and implemented using Motorola MCF5272 as the core communication processor and uCLinux as the operating system. The implementation relies purely on the existing hardware resources of an available development board and the publicly available open source utilities of uCLinux. The overall development process provides an embedded system implementation and configuration example.
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Brock, Jerome P. "Supporting the secure halting of user sessions and processes in the Linux operating system." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA393629.

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Bahmann, Helge. "A network transparent, retained mode multimedia processing framework for the Linux operating system environment." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola&quot, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-967869.

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Die Arbeit präsentiert ein Multimedia-Framework für Linux, das im Unterschied zu früheren Arbeiten auf den Ideen "retained-mode processing" und "lazy evaluation" basiert: Statt Transformationen unmittelbar auszuführen, wird eine abstrakte Repräsentation aller Medienelemente aufgebaut. "renderer"-Treiber fungieren als Übersetzer, die diese Darstellung zur Laufzeit in konkrete Operationen umsetzen, wobei das Datenmodell zahlreiche Optimierungen zur Reduktion der Anzahl der Schritte oder der Minimierung von Kommunikation erlaubt. Dies erlaubt ein stark vereinfachtes Programmiermodell bei gleichzeitiger Effizienzsteigerung. "renderer"-Treiber können zur Ausführung von Transformationen den lokalen Prozessor verwenden, oder können die Operationen delegieren. In der Arbeit wird eine Erweiterung des X Window Systems um Mechanismen zur Medienverarbeitung vorgestellt, sowie ein "renderer"-Treiber, der diese zur Delegation der Verarbeitung nutzt.
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Boumenot, Christopher M. "The performance of a Linux NFS implementation." Link to electronic thesis, 2002. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-0523102-121726/.

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Goktepe, Meftun. "Windows XP Operating System security analysis." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02sep%5FGoktepe.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002.
Thesis advisor(s): Richard Harkins, Cynthia Irvine. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107). Also available online.
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Engler, Dawson R. "The exokernel operating system architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16713.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-120).
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
On traditional operating systems only trusted software such as privileged servers or the kernel can manage resources. This thesis proposes a new approach, the exokernel architecture, which makes resource management unprivileged but safe by separating management from protection: an exokernel protects resources, while untrusted application-level software manages them. As a result, in an exokernel system, untrusted software (e.g., library operating systems) can implement abstractions such as virtual memory, file systems, and networking. Themain thrusts of this thesis are: (1) how to build an exokernel system; (2) whether it is possible to build a real one; and (3) whether doing so is a good idea. Our results, drawn from two exokernel systems [25, 48], show that the approach yields dramatic benefits. For example, Xok, an exokernel, runs a web server an order of magnitude faster than the closest equivalent on the same hardware, common unaltered Unix applications up to three times faster, and improves global system performance up to a factor of five. The thesis also discusses some of the new techniques we have used to remove the overhead of protection. Themost unusual technique, untrusted deterministic functions, enables an exokernel to verify that applications correctly track the resources they own, eliminating the need for it to do so. Additionally, the thesis reflects on the subtle issues in using downloaded code for extensibility and the sometimes painful lessons learned in building three exokernel-based systems.
by Dawson R. Engler.
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Gurevich, Yevgeny. "The M-Machine operating system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37041.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-118).
by Yevgeny Gurevich.
M.Eng.
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Roker, I. G. R. J. "A real-time operating system." Thesis, University of Bath, 1986. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375638.

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Casagrande, Luiz Gustavo. "Soft error analysis with and without operating system." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/149633.

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A complexidade dos sistemas integrados em chips bem como a arquitetura de processadores comerciais vem crescendo dramaticamente nos últimos anos. Com isto, a dificuldade de avaliarmos a suscetibilidade às falhas em decorrência da incidência de partículas espaciais carregadas nestes dispositivos cresce com a mesma taxa. Este trabalho apresenta uma análise comparativa da susceptibilidade à erros de software em um microprocessador embarcado ARM Cortex-A9 single core de larga escala comercial, amplamente utilizado em aplicações críticas, executando um conjunto de 11 aplicações desenvolvidas para um ambiente bare metal e para o sistema operacional Linux. A análise de soft errors é executada por injeção de falhas na plataforma de simulação OVPSim juntamente com o injetor OVPSim-FIM, capaz de sortear o momento e local de injeção de uma falha. A campanha de injeção de falhas reproduz milhares de bit-flips no banco de registradores do microprocessador durante a execução do conjunto de benchmarks que possuem um comportamento de código diverso, desde dependência de fluxo de controle até aplicações intensivas em dados. O método de análise consiste em comparar execuções da aplicação onde falhas foram injetadas com uma execução livre de falhas. Os resultados apresentam a taxa de falhas que são classificadas em: mascaradas (UNACE), travamento ou perda de controle de fluxo (HANG) e erro nos resultados (SDC). Adicionalmente, os erros são classificados por registradores, separando erros latentes por sua localização nos resultados e por exceções detectadas pelo sistema operacional, provendo novas possibilidades de análise para um processador desta escala. O método proposto e os resultados obtidos podem ajudar a orientar desenvolvedores de software na escolha de diferentes arquiteturas de código, a fim de aprimorar a tolerância à falhas do sistema embarcado como um todo.
The complexity of integrated system on-chips as well as commercial processor’s architecture has increased dramatically in recent years. Thus, the effort for assessing the susceptibility to faults due to the incidence of spatial charged particles in these devices has growth at the same rate. This work presents a comparative analysis of soft errors susceptibility in the commercial large-scale embedded microprocessor ARM Cortex-A9 single core, widely used in critical applications, performing a set of 11 applications developed for a bare metal environment and the Linux operating system. The soft errors analysis is performed by fault injection in OVPSim simulation platform along with the OVPSim-FIM fault injector, able to randomly select the time and place to inject the fault. The fault injection campaign reproduces thousands of bit-flips in the microprocessor register file during the execution of the benchmarks set, with a diverse code behavior ranging from control flow dependency to data intensive applications. The analysis method is based on comparing applications executions where faults were injected with a fault-free implementation. The results show the error rate classified by their effect as: masked (UNACE), crash or loss of control flow (HANG) and silent data corruption (SDC); and by register locations. By separating latent errors by its location in the results and exceptions detected by the operating system, one can provide new better observability for a large-scale processor. The proposed method and the results can guide software developers in choosing different code architectures in order to improve the fault tolerance of the embedded system as a whole.
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Mosberger, David. "Scout: A path-based operating system." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288704.

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Scout is a new operating system architecture that is designed specifically to accommodate the needs of communication-centric systems. An important class of such systems is formed by information appliances, which, broadly speaking, are devices whose primary task is to facilitate communication. Appliances are typically relatively small, special-purpose, and often mobile devices such as remote controls, personal information managers, network-attached disks, cameras, displays, or dedicated file-servers. Scout has a modular structure that is complemented by a new abstraction called the path. The modular structure enables the efficient building of systems that are tailored precisely to the requirements of a particular appliance. Paths address issues related to the performance and quality with which a communication service is rendered. A path can be visualized as a vertical slice through a layered system or viewed abstractly as a bidirectional flow of data. As such, a path typically traverses multiple modules in a Scout system. This means that paths provide additional context to the modules that process data that is being communicated through the system. This context often makes it possible to implement data processing more efficiently or to improve the quality with which resource management, such as CPU scheduling or memory allocation, is realized. This dissertation develops the path abstraction from first principles and then introduces the various aspects of the Scout architecture. Aside from the path abstraction, Scout uses a novel approach for network packet classification. With the Scout architecture defined, two studies are presented that provide an in-depth look at how to use Scout and its path abstraction. The first study employs the path abstraction to reduce processing latency in the networking subsystem. Evaluating these path optimizations also provides important insights on the performance behavior of networking subsystems on modern RISC machines. The second study employs the path abstraction to improve resource management for an information appliance that involves a networked TV displaying MPEG encoded video.
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Glover, Mark V. "Integrating a trusted computing base extension server and secure session server into the Linux operating system." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA397015.

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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2001.
Thesis advisors: Irvine, Cynthia E. ; Shifflett, David. "September 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62). Also Available online.
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Luštický, Josef. "40GbE směrovač pro operační systém GNU/Linux." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-234945.

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Účelem této práce je popis protokolu 40Gb Ethernet, popis směrovacího procesu v jádře Linux a navrhnout a provést testování výkonnosti směrování se síťovým adaptérem pro 40Gb Ethernet. Výsledky a nastavení pro získání maximální výkonnosti směrování jsou dále popsány v této práci.
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Borek, Martin. "Intrusion Detection System for Android : Linux Kernel System Salls Analysis." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-222382.

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Smartphones provide access to a plethora of private information potentially leading to financial and personal hardship, hence they need to be well protected. With new Android malware obfuscation and evading techniques, including encrypted and downloaded malicious code, current protection approaches using static analysis are becoming less effective. A dynamic solution is needed that protects Android phones in real time. System calls have previously been researched as an effective method for Android dynamic analysis. However, these previous studies concentrated on analysing system calls captured in emulated sandboxed environments, which does not prove the suitability of this approach for real time analysis on the actual device. This thesis focuses on analysis of Linux kernel system calls on the ARMv8 architecture. Given the limitations of android phones it is necessary to minimise the resources required for the analyses, therefore we focused on the sequencing of system calls. With this approach, we sought a method that could be employed for a real time malware detection directly on Android phones. We also experimented with different data representation feature vectors; histogram, n-gram and co-occurrence matrix. All data collection was carried out on a real Android device as existing Android emulators proved to be unsuitable for emulating a system with the ARMv8 architecture. Moreover, data were collected on a human controlled device since reviewed Android event generators and crawlers did not accurately simulate real human interactions. The results show that Linux kernel sequencing carry enough information to detect malicious behaviour of malicious applications on the ARMv8 architecture. All feature vectors performed well. In particular, n-gram and co-occurrence matrix achieved excellent results. To reduce the computational complexity of the analysis, we experimented with including only the most commonly occurring system calls. While the accuracy degraded slightly, it was a worthwhile trade off as the computational complexity was substantially reduced.
Smartphones ger tillgång till en uppsjö av privat information som potentiellt kan leda till finansiella och personliga svårigheter. Därför måste de vara väl skyddade. En dynamisk lösning behövs som skyddar Android-telefoner i realtid. Systemanrop har tidigare undersökts som en effektiv metod för dynamisk analys av Android. Emellertid fokuserade dessa tidigare studier på systemanrop i en emulerad sandbox miljö, vilket inte visar lämpligheten av detta tillvägagångssätt för realtidsanalys av själva enheten. Detta arbete fokuserar på analys av Linux kärnan systemanrop på ARMv8 arkitekturen. Givet begränsningarna som existerar i Android-telefoner är det väsentligt att minimera resurserna som krävs för analyserna. Därför fokuserade vi på sekvenseringen av systemanropen. Med detta tillvägagångssätt sökte vi en metod som skulle kunna användas för realtidsdetektering av skadliga program direkt på Android-telefoner. Vi experimenterade dessutom med olika funktionsvektorer för att representera data; histogram, n-gram och co-occurrence matriser. All data hämtades från en riktig Android enhet då de existerande Android emulatorerna visade sig vara olämpliga för att emulera ett system med ARMv8 arkitekturen. Resultaten visar att Linus kärnans sekvensering har tillräckligt med information för att upptäcka skadligt beteende av skadliga applikationer på ARMv8 arkitekturen. Alla funktionsvektorer presterade bra. N-gram och cooccurrence matriserna uppnådde till och med lysande resultat. För att reducera beräkningskomplexiteten av analysen, experimenterade vi med att enbart använda de vanligaste systemanropen. Fast noggrannheten minskade lite, var det värt uppoffringen eftersom beräkningskomplexiteten reducerades märkbart.
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Druschel, Peter. "Operating system support for high-speed networking." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186828.

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The advent of high-speed networks may soon increase the network bandwidth available to workstation class computers by two orders of magnitude. Combined with the dramatic increase in microprocessor speed, these technological advances make possible new kinds of applications, such as multimedia and parallel computing on networks of workstations. At the same time, the operating system, in its role as mediator and multiplexor of computing resources, is threatening to become a bottleneck. The underlying cause is that main memory performance has not kept up with the growth of CPU and I/O speed, thus opening a bandwidth gap between CPU and main memory, while closing the old gap between main memory and I/O. Current operating systems fail to properly take into account the performance characteristics of the memory subsystem. The trend towards server-based operating systems exacerbates this problem, since a modular OS structure tends to increase pressure on the memory system. This dissertation is concerned with the I/O bottleneck in operating systems, with particular focus on high-speed networking. We start by identifying the causes of this bottleneck, which are rooted in a mismatch of operating system behavior with the performance characteristics of modern computer hardware. Then, traditional approaches to supporting I/O in operating systems are re-evaluated in light of current hardware performance tradeoffs. This re-evaluation gives rise to a set of novel techniques that eliminate the I/O bottleneck.
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Furrer, Travis C. (Travis Clay) 1976. "Power aware embedded operating system design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86470.

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Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).
by Travis C. Furrer.
S.B.and M.Eng.
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Chen, Benjie 1976. "Multiprocessing with the exokernel operating system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81538.

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Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59).
by Benjie Chen.
S.B.and M.Eng.
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Pinckney, Thomas. "Operating system extensibility through event capture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42782.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31).
by Thomas Pinckney III.
M.Eng.
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Chiang, Ken H. "A prototype implementation of a time interval file protection system in Linux." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2359.

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Control of access to information based on temporal attributes has many potential applications. Examples include student user accounts set to expire upon graduation; files marked as time-sensitive so that their contents can be protected appropriately and the period of access to them controlled; and cryptographic keys configured to automatically expire and be unusable beyond a specific time. This thesis implements a prototype of the Time Interval Access Control (TIAC) model in the context of a protected file system for the popular open-source Linux operating system. The Linux Security Module framework is used for the implementation, which includes temporal attributes associated both with the files and the users. The implementation includes modifications to the file system as well as low-level information access constructs. As part of the design process, testing and performance analysis were conducted. Since the temporal access control mechanism is built into the kernel rather than the application, bypassing the mechanism becomes more difficult. Kernel level implementation also affords the same policy enforcement functionality to different applications, thus reducing human errors in their development. This thesis is relevant to the research on dynamic security services for information protection envisioned by the DoD Global Information Grid (GIG).
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Pinnix, Justin Everett. "Operating System Kernel for All Real Time Systems." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20010310-181302.

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PINNIX, JUSTIN EVERETT. Operating System Kernel for All Real Time Systems.(Under the direction of Robert J. Fornaro and Vicki E. Jones.)

This document describes the requirements, design, and implementation of OSKAR, ahard real time operating system for Intel Pentium compatible personal computers.OSKAR provides rate monotonic scheduling, fixed and dynamic priority scheduling,semaphores, message passing, priority ceiling protocols, TCP/IP networking, and globaltime synchronization using the Global Positioning System (GPS). It is intended toprovide researchers a test bed for real time projects that is inexpensive, simple tounderstand, and easy to extend.

The design of the system is described with special emphasis on design tradeoffs made toimprove real time requirements compliance. The implementation is covered in detail atthe source code level. Experiments to qualify functionality and obtain performanceprofiles are included and the results explained.

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Nicol, J. R. "Operating system design for distributed programming environments." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332608.

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Wilson, I. D. "Operating system design for large personal workstations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372924.

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Beckmann, Nathan (Nathan Zachary). "Distributed naming in a factored operating system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62460.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89).
A factored operating system (fos) is a new operating system design for manycore and cloud computers. In fos, OS services are separated from application code and run on distinct cores. Furthermore, each service is split into a fleet, or parallel set of cooperating processes that communicate using messages. Applications discover OS services through a distributed, dynamic name service. Each core runs a thin microkernel, and applications link in a user-space library called libfos that translates service requests into messages. The name service facilitates message delivery by looking up service locations and load balancing within service fleets. libfos caches service locations in a private cache to accelerate message delivery, and invalid entries are detected and invalidated by the microkernel. As messaging is the primary communication medium in fos, the name service plays a foundational role in the system. It enables key concepts of fos's design, such as fleets, communication locality, elasticity, and spatial scheduling. It is also one of the first complex services implemented in fos, and its implementation provides insight into issues one encounters while developing a distributed fos service. This thesis describes the design and implementation of the naming system in fos, including the naming and messaging system within each application and the distributed name service itself. Scaling numbers for the name service are presented for various workloads, as well as end-to-end performance numbers for two benchmarks. These numbers indicate good scaling of the name service with expected usage patterns, and superior messaging performance of the new naming system when compared with its prior implementation. The thesis concludes with research directions for future work.
by Nathan Beckmann.
S.M.
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Stevenson, Martijn. "Asbestos : operating system security for mobile devices." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37101.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.
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This thesis presents the design and implementation of a port of the Asbestos operating system to the ARM processor. The port to the ARM allows Asbestos to run on mobile devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants. These mobile, wireless-enabled devices are at risk for data attacks because they store private data but often roam in public networks. The Asbestos operating system is designed to prevent disclosure of such data. The port includes a file system and a network driver, which together enable future development of Asbestos applications on the ARM platform. This thesis evaluates the port with a performance comparison between Asbestos running on an HP iPAQ hand held computer and the original x86 Asbestos.
by Martijn Stevenson.
M.Eng.
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Wyatt, Douglas Karl. "Shared libraries in an exokernel operating system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42736.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47).
by Douglas Karl Wyatt.
M.Eng.
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