Hijack: Taking control of COTS systems for real-time user-level services

Proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, RTAS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 133-144

  Parmer, Gabriel ^a   West, Richard ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA HANDLING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REAL TIME CONTROL; USER INTERFACES;

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) SYSTEMS; LINUX (OPERATING SYSTEMS); PROPRIETARY SOLUTIONS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548126478     PISSN: 15453421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTAS.2007.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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