Choices (class hierarchical open interface for custom embedded systems)
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer augmented environments: back to the real world
Efficient software-based fault isolation
SOSP '93 Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Exokernel: an operating system architecture for application-level resource management
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Fundamental challenges in mobile computing
PODC '96 Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Application-aware adaptation for mobile computing
EW 6 Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs
Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Computing
Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobile Computing
OS portal: an economic approach for making an embedded kernel extensible
Journal of Systems and Software
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Generic mechanisms and policies provided by the existing operating system kernels cannot satisfy requirements of the current and future applications especially in mobile system environments. An operating system kernel needs to be adaptable, customizable, and extensible to cope with the changes of a computation environment and requirements from applications. This paper introduces a DKM (Dynamic Kernel Module) as a mechanism and the DKM server as a service to reconfigure RT-Mach. A DKM is an extension of a LKM (Loadable Kernel Module), which is provided by UNIX kernels to extend their functionality dynamically. The DKM server manages their load and detachment. It must be programmable not to lose the flexibility of their management but to be reconfigurable to cope with a variety of applications and systems.