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A Taste of Capsicum: Practical Capabilities For Unix
Capsicum is a lightweight operating system capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs...
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Technical Perspective: Content-Centric Networking
Much has changed in the 50 years since the invention of packet switching and the early network designs and deployments that...
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Networking Named Content
Current network use is dominated by content distribution and retrieval yet current networking protocols are designed for conversations between hosts. We present...
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Technical Perspective: Power Efficiency as the #1 Design Constraint
Moore's Law, and associated observations by Bob Dennard, describe key technical...
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Understanding Sources of Ineffciency in General-Purpose Chips
To better understand what improvement in processor efficiency is possible, we quantify the performance and energy overheads of a 720p HD H.264 encoder running on...
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Technical Perspective: Skintroducing the Future
Two critical goals for mobile devices seem intrinsically in conflict. For carrying, the smaller the better. Yet for...
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Skinput: Appropriating the Skin as an Interactive Canvas
Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an input surface by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. Specifically, we resolve...
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VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network
VL2 is a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data centers with uniform high capacity between servers, performance isolation between services...
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Technical Perspective: VL2
The Internet is increasingly a platform for online services running on rack after rack of servers. With the advent of large data centers, the study of the networks...
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DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
While a large body of work exists on DRAM in lab conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze...
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Technical Perspective: DRAM Errors in the Wild
In order to advance the field, knowledge of the types of memory errors at the system level, their frequencies, and conditions that exacerbate or are unrelated to...
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Path Selection and Multipath Congestion Control
This paper studies data transfers under two classes of multipath control, coordinated control where the rates...
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Technical Perspective: Multipath, A New Control Architecture For the Internet
Multipath transmission for the Internet—that is, allowing users to send some of their packets along one path and...
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Sora: High-Performance Software Radio Using General-Purpose Multi-Core Processors
Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware software-defined radio platforms...
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Technical Perspective: Sora Promises Lasting Impact
The objective of Sora is to build a software defined radio that combines the performance and fidelity of hardware...
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Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
Virtual machine monitors are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. But main memory is not amenable to multiplexed hardware...
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Technical Perspective: A VM 'Engine' That Makes a Difference
The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in server virtualization. Diwaker Gupta et al. present a novel approach for significantly improving the efficiency of...
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Phase Change Memory Architecture and the Quest For Scalability
Memory scaling is in jeopardy as charge storage and sensing mechanisms become less reliable for prevalent memory technologies. In contrast, phase change memory...
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Technical Perspective: Technology Scaling Redirects Main Memories
As predicted by Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965, the number of transistors that can be integrated on one die continues to double approximately...
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