Enforcing appropriate process execution for exploiting idle resources from outside operating systems

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 27-40

  Abe, Yoshihisa ^a,b   Yamada, Hiroshi ^a   Kono, Kenji ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Background execution; Idle resources

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING PROJECTS; CPU-INTENSIVE; DATA REPLICATION; EXECUTION CONTROL; EXECUTION TIME; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PRIORITY-BASED SCHEDULERS; PROCESS EXECUTION; RESOURCE CONTENTION; RESOURCE SHARE; USER LEVELS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DEGRADATION; VIRUSES;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 77952173157     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357010.1352596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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