Incommunicado: Fast Communication for Isolates

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Jan Vitek, Krzysztof Palacz, Grzegorz Czajkowski, Laurent Daynes

Tech report number

CERIAS TR 2002-40

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inproceedings

Abstract

Executing computatutations in a single instance of safe language virtual machine can improve performance and overall platform scalability. It also poses various challenges. One of them is providing a fast inter-application communication mechanism. In addition for being efficient, such a mechanism should not violate any functional and non-functional properties of its environment, and should also support enforcement of application-specific security policies. This paper explores the design and implementation of a communication substrate for applications executing within a single Java virtual machine modified to enable safe and interference-free execution of isolated computations. Designing an efficient extension that des not break isolation properties and at the same time pragmatically offers an intuitive API has proven non-trivial. This paper demonstrates a set of techniques that lead to at least an eight-fold performance improvement over the in-process inter-application communication using standard mechanisms offered by the Java platform.

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Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'02)

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Purdue

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Vitek

Publisher

ACM

Publication Date

1900-01-01

Keywords

appication isolation, inter-application communication

Language

English

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A hard-copy of this is in the CERIAS Library

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	abstract = "Executing computatutations in a single instance of safe language virtual machine can improve performance and overall platform scalability.  It also poses various challenges.  One of them is providing a fast inter-application communication mechanism.  In addition for being efficient, such a mechanism should not violate any functional and non-functional properties of its environment, and should also support enforcement of application-specific security policies.  This paper explores the design and implementation of a communication substrate for applications executing within a single Java virtual machine modified to enable safe and interference-free execution of isolated computations.  Designing an efficient extension that des not break isolation properties and at the same time pragmatically offers an intuitive API has proven non-trivial.  This paper demonstrates a set of techniques that lead to at least an eight-fold performance improvement over the in-process inter-application communication using standard mechanisms offered by the Java platform.",
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