SoftECC : a system for software memory integrity checking
Name
78925448-MIT.pdf
Description
Full printable version
Size
1.76 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
b8613ac08dd18e37df01551d716df4d1
Author(s)
Dopson, Dave
Advisor(s)
Frans Kaashoek.
Alternative Title
Soft ECC : a system for software memory integrity checking
Date Issued
2005
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
SoftECC is software memory integrity checking agent. SoftECC repeatedly computes page-level checksums as an efficient means to verify that a page's contents have not changed. Memory errors that occur between two checksum computations will cause the two checksum values to disagree. Legitimate memory writes also cause a change in checksum value, so a page can only be protected during periods of time when it is not being written to. Preliminary measurements with an implementation of SoftECC in the JOS kernel on the x86 architecture show that SoftECC can halve the number of undetectable soft errors using minimal compute time.
Description
Thesis (M. Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-52).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Terms of Use
M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.
Persistent DSpace Link
