Chip multicore processors (CMPs) have emerged as the dominant architecture choice for
modern computing platforms and will most likely continue to be dominant well into the …

Multicore processors are being extensively used by real-time systems, mainly because of
their demand for increased computing power. However, multicore processors have shared …

Microarchitectural timing channels expose hidden hardware states though timing. We survey
recent attacks that exploit microarchitectural features in shared hardware, especially as they …

Cache side channel attacks are serious threats to multi-tenant public cloud platforms. Past
work showed how secret information in one virtual machine (VM) can be extracted by …

VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources
efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This …

Website fingerprinting attacks use statistical analysis on network traffic to compromise user
privacy. The classical attack model used to evaluate website fingerprinting attacks assumes …

Contention for shared resources on multicore processors remains an unsolved problem in
existing systems despite significant research efforts dedicated to this problem in the past …

DRAM consists of multiple resources called banks that can be accessed in parallel and
independently maintain state information. In Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) multicore …

With the widespread adoption of multicore architectures, multiprocessors are now a
standard deployment platform for (soft) real-time applications. This dissertation addresses …

Multi-core architectures are shaking the fundamental assumption that in real-time systems
the WCET, used to analyze the schedulability of the complete system, is calculated on …