Integration Points of Operating System Verification Techniques

Integration Verification in System on Chips Using Formal Techniques

System on Chips (SoCs) have become an all pervasive component in many of the equipments both the common placed and the sophisticated, that are relied upon by human beings in today‘s modern societies; ranging from mobile phones, personal computers, microwave ovens, high definition televisions, base stations for cellular mobile communication and automobiles. Their penetration into every day aspec...

Operating System Verification — An Overview

This paper gives a high-level introduction to the topic of formal, interactive, machine-checked software verification in general, and the verification of operating systems code in particular. We survey the state of the art, the advantages and limitations of machinechecked code proofs, and describe two specific ongoing larger-scale verification projects in more detail.

Operating System Verification for Real Use

Software verification remains an academic exercise as long as it focusses on toy problems, such as systems that are too simplified for practical deployment, or perform too poorly. Furthermore, formal verification of software is of limited benefit if the software is deployed in a system where it executes on top of an unverified operating system. This talk presents an overview of an effort at NIC...

Kit: A Study in Operating System Verification

Operating System Techniques for Distributed Multimedia

In designing operating system support for distributed multimedia, we target three areas for improvement: reduced copying, reduced reliance on explicit kernel-user interactions , and provision of rate-based ow control. Towards these goals, we propose an architecture that includes the concept of I/O eecient buuers for reduced copying, the concept of fast system calls for low latency network acces...