Providing dynamic update in an operating system

USENIX 2005 Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 279-291

  Baumann, Andrew ^a   Heiser, Gernot ^a   Appavoo, Jonathan ^b   da Silva, Dilma ^b   Krieger, Orran ^b   Wisniewski, Robert W ^b   Kerr, Jeremy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWN TIME; DYNAMIC UPDATE; EVENT-DRIVEN; MULTIPLE CLIENTS; RUN-TIME EXECUTION; RUNNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE UPDATES; SYSTEM SUPPORTS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 85077366413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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