Siloz: Leveraging DRAM Isolation Domains to Prevent Inter-VM Rowhammer

K Loughlin, J Rosenblum, S Saroiu, A Wolman… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's cloud DRAM lacks strong isolation primitives, highlighted by Rowhammer bit flips.
Rowhammer poses an increasing threat to cloud security/reliability, given (1) DRAM …

SegScope: Probing fine-grained interrupts via architectural footprints

X Zhang, Z Zhang, Q Shen, W Wang… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interrupts are critical hardware resources for OS kernels to schedule processes. As they are
related to system activities, interrupts can be used to mount various side-channel attacks (ie …

FlyOS: rethinking integrated modular avionics for autonomous multicopters

A Farrukh, R West - Real-Time Systems, 2023 - Springer
Autonomous multicopters often feature federated architectures, which incur relatively high
communication costs between separate hardware components. These costs limit the ability …

FLYOS: Integrated Modular Avionics for Autonomous Multicopters

A Farrukh, R West - 2022 IEEE 28th Real-Time and Embedded …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous multicopters often feature federated architectures, which incur relatively high
communication costs between separate hardware components. These costs limit the ability …

Mitigating Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities to Improve Cloud Security and Reliability

K Loughlin - 2023 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Cloud providers must isolate each execution context—eg, a virtual machine (VM)—atop
shared hardware. Unfortunately, commodity hardware only strongly enforces context …

[PDF][PDF] Elevating Multithreading Further into the Cloud

S Schildermans, T Schrijvers, K Aerts, X Ding - 2022 - lirias.kuleuven.be
The story of this Ph. D. project starts with that of my Master's thesis, in which I explored the
potential of functional programming in various cloud environments. The main conclusion of …