Application downtime, planned or unplanned, is an important concern in many domains.
Software updates are a major reason for planned downtime, and are inevitable due to the …

Online update is a technique that reduces the disruption caused by a software update. It
does so by applying a patch to a running process as opposed to shutting down the process …

Online software upgrades are often plagued by runtime behaviors that are poorly
understood and difficult to ascertain. For example, the interactions among multiple versions …

Online update is a technique which reduces the disruption caused during software update
by applying a patch to a running process. It is a challenge to update a process while …

The development of a dynamic software updating system for statically-typed object-oriented
programming languages has turned out to be a challenging task. Despite the fact that the …

Modern operating systems are subject to a constant stream of patches and updates: to fix
bugs, improve performance, or add features. Dynamic update offers significantly increased …

Maintenance downtime and overheads for applying patches are major concerns for systems
requiring round the clock availability. Hence, methods for carrying out dynamic updates are …

Dynamic update is a mechanism that allows software updates and patches to be applied to
a running system without loss of service or down-time. Operating systems would benefit from …

While there exists a fair number of partial solutions to enabling dynamic updating in arbitrary
applications, none of them have proved to be superior. This paper does not suggest" yet …

Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the
reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and …