Improving interrupt response time in a verifiable protected microkernel

EuroSys'12 - Proceedings of the EuroSys 2012 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 323-336

  Blackham, Bernard ^a   Shi, Yao ^a   Heiser, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Formal verification; Hard real time systems; Microkernels; Trusted systems; Worst case execution time

Indexed keywords

FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS; MICRO KERNEL; TRUSTED SYSTEMS; WORST-CASE EXECUTION TIME;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84860586287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2168836.2168869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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