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A ubiquitous computing system derives its operations from the collective interactions of its constituent components. Consequently, a robust ubiquitous system entails that the discrete components must be robust to handle errors arising in themselves and over interactions with other system components. This paper conceptually outlines a profiling framework that assists in finding weaknesses in one of the fundamental building blocks of computer based systems, namely the Operating System (OS). The framework allows a system designer to ascertain possible error propagation paths, from drivers through the OS to applications. This significantly helps enhance the OS (or driver/application) with selective robustness hardening capabilities, i.e., robustness wrappers.
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Johansson, A., Sârbu, A., Jhumka, A., Suri, N. (2005). On Enhancing the Robustness of Commercial Operating Systems. In: Malek, M., Reitenspieß, M., Kaiser, J. (eds) Service Availability. ISAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30225-4_11
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