Publications

2024

VLDB'24 Conference A*
Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware [Vision]
Viktor Leis, Christian DietrichProceedings of the 50th International Conference on Very Large Data BasesVLDB Endowment2024Vision Paper, Accepted with availability check.
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2023

ACCESS Journal
Evaluation and Refinement of an Explicit Virtual-Memory Primitive
Yannick Loeck, Christian DietrichIEEE Access112023.
10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3338149 [BibTex]
ICCAD Conference A
Checkpoint Placement for Systematic Fault-Injection Campaigns
Christian Dietrich, Tim-Marek Thomas, Matthias MnichICCAD '23: Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-aided designACM Press2023.
PDF Raw Data 10.1109/ICCAD57390.2023.10323809 [BibTex]
DIMES Workshop
Morsels: Explicit Virtual Memory Objects
Alexander Halbuer, Christian Dietrich, Florian Rommel, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 1st Workshop on Disruptive Memory SystemsAssociation for Computing Machinery2023.
PDF Slides 10.1145/3609308.3625267 [BibTex]
USENIX Conference A Distinguished Artifact Award
LLFree: Scalable and Optionally-Persistent Page-Frame Allocation
Lars Wrenger, Florian Rommel, Alexander Halbuer, Christian Dietrich, Daniel Lohmann2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '23)USENIX Association2023Distinguished Artifact Award.
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USENIX Conference A
MELF: Multivariant Executables for a Heterogeneous World
Dominik Töllner, Christian Dietrich, Illia Ostapyshyn, Florian Rommel, Daniel Lohmann2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '23)USENIX Association2023.
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LCTES Conference B
Thread-Level Attack-Surface Reduction
Florian Rommel, Christian Dietrich, Andreas Ziegler, Illia Ostapyshyn, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded SystemsACM Press2023.
PDF Slides Video 10.1145/3589610.3596281 [BibTex]
SIGMOD Conference A*
Virtual-Memory Assisted Buffer Management
Viktor Leis, Adnan Alhomssi, Tobias Ziegler, Yannick Loeck, Christian DietrichProceedings of the ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of DataACM2023.
PDF 10.1145/3588687 [BibTex]
LCTES Conference B
reUpNix: Reconfigurable and Updateable Embedded Systems
Niklas Gollenstede, Ulf Kulau, Christian DietrichProceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded SystemsACM Press2023.
PDF Slides Raw Data 10.1145/3589610.3596273 [BibTex]

2022

ICSOFT Conference B Best Student Paper
TASTING: Reuse Test-case Execution by Global AST Hashing
Tobias Landsberg, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - ICSOFTSciTePress2022Best Student Paper.
PDF 10.5220/0011139200003266 [BibTex]
ISORC Conference C Outstanding Paper Award
PSIC: Priority-Strict Multi-Core IRQ Processing
Malte Bargholz, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed ComputingIEEE Computer Society2022Outstanding Paper Award.
PDF Slides 10.1109/ISORC52572.2022.9812796 [BibTex]
SAFECOMP Conference B
ACTOR: Accelerating Fault Injection Campaigns using Timeout Detection based on Autocorrelation
Tim-Marek Thomas, Christian Dietrich, Oskar Pusz, Daniel Lohmann41st International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 2022)Springer-Verlag2022.
PDF Slides 10.1007/978-3-031-14835-4_17 [BibTex]
SAFECOMP Conference B
SailFAIL: Model-Derived Simulation-Assisted ISA-Level Fault-Injection Platforms
Christian Dietrich, Malte Bargholz, Yannick Loeck, Marcel Budoj, Luca Nedaskowskij, Daniel Lohmann41st International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 2022)Springer-Verlag2022.
PDF Slides 10.1007/978-3-031-14835-4_14 [BibTex]

2021

PLOS Workshop C
CppSig: Extracting Type Information for C-Preprocessor Macro Expansions
Christian DietrichProceedings of the 11th SOSP Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS '21)ACM2021.
PDF Slides Video Teaser Video Raw Data 10.1145/3477113.3487268 [BibTex]
LCTES Conference A
Data-Flow–Sensitive Fault-Space Pruning for the Injection of Transient Hardware Faults
Oskar Pusz, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '21)ACM Press2021.
PDF Slides 10.1145/3461648.3463851 [BibTex]
LCTES Artifact A
Source Code and Evaluation Data for the Paper: Data-Flow–Sensitive Fault-Space Pruning for the Injection of Transient Hardware Faults
Oskar Pusz, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '21)ACM Press2021.
10.5281/zenodo.4698901 [BibTex]
RTAS Conference A
ARA: Static Initialization of Dynamically-Created System Objects
Björn Fiedler, Gerion Entrup, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'21)2021.
PDF Video Teaser Video 10.1109/RTAS52030.2021.00039 [BibTex]
Book Chapter
Dependability Aspects in Configurable Embedded Operating Systems
Horst Schirmeier, Christoph Borchert, Martin Hoffmann, Christian Dietrich, Arthur Martens, Rüdiger Kapitza, Daniel Lohmann, Olaf SpinczykDependable Embedded SystemsSpringer2021.
PDF 10.1007/978-3-030-52017-5_4 [BibTex]

2020

OSDI Conference A*
From Global to Local Quiescence: Wait-Free Code Patching of Multi-Threaded Processes
Florian Rommel, Christian Dietrich, Daniel Friesel, Marcel Köppen, Christoph Borchert, Michael Müller, Olaf Spinczyk, Daniel Lohmann14th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI '20)2020.
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2019

OSPERT Workshop B
ARA: Automatic Instance-Level Analysis in Real-Time Systems
Gerion Entrup, Benedikt Steinmeier, Christian DietrichProceedings of the 15th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT '19)2019.
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Thesis
Interaction-Aware Analysis and Optimization of Real-Time Application and Operating System
Christian Dietrich PHD thesisLeibniz Universität Hannover2019.
PDF 10.15488/7253 [BibTex]
EuroSys Conference A
Multiverse: Compiler-Assisted Management of Dynamic Variability in Low-Level System Software
Florian Rommel, Christian Dietrich, Michael Rodin, Daniel LohmannFourteenth EuroSys Conference 2019 (EuroSys '19)ACM Press2019.
PDF Slides 10.1145/3302424.3303959 [BibTex]
PRDC Conference B
Program-Structure–Guided Approximation of Large Fault Spaces
Oskar Pusz, Daniel Kiechle, Christian Dietrich, Daniel Lohmann2019 24th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC'19)IEEE Computer Society Press2019.
PDF Slides 10.1109/PRDC47002.2019.00044 [BibTex]
RTSS Conference A*
RT.js: Practical Real-Time Scheduling for Web Applications
Christian Dietrich, Stefan Naumann, Robin Thrift, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2019IEEE Computer Society Press2019.
PDF 10.1109/RTSS46320.2019.00017 [BibTex]
PLOS Workshop B
Wait-Free Code Patching of Multi-Threaded Processes
Florian Rommel, Lennart Glauer, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 10th SOSP Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS '19)ACM2019.
PDF 10.1145/3365137.3365404 [BibTex]

2018

OSPERT Workshop B Best Paper Award
Levels of Specialization in Real-Time Operating Systems
Björn Fiedler, Gerion Entrup, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT '18)2018Best Paper Award.
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DAC Conference A
Cross-Layer Fault-Space Pruning for Hardware-Assisted Fault Injection
Christian Dietrich, Achim Schmider, Oskar Pusz, Guillermo Payá-Vayá, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 55th Annual Design Automation Conference 2018 (DAC '18)ACM Press2018.
PDF Slides Raw Data 10.1145/3195970.3196019 [BibTex]
RTSS Conference A*
Semi-Extended Tasks: Efficient Stack Sharing Among Blocking Threads
Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 2018IEEE Computer Society Press2018.
PDF Slides Raw Data 10.1109/RTSS.2018.00049 [BibTex]
Artifact
Whole-System WCEC Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems (Artifact)
Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, Wolfgang Schröder-PreikschatDagstuhl Artifacts Series4.2Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik2018.
10.4230/DARTS.4.2.7 [BibTex]
ECRTS Conference A Outstanding Paper Award
Whole-System Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems
Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, Wolfgang Schröder-PreikschatProceedings of the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems 2018Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik2018Outstanding Paper Award.
PDF 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.24 [BibTex]

2017

FMCAD Conference
Automatic Verification of Application-Tailored OSEK Kernels
Hans-Peter Deifel, Christian Dietrich, Merlin Göttlinger, Daniel Lohmann, Stefan Milius, Lutz SchröderProceedings of the 17th Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD '17)ACM Press2017.
PDF 10.23919/FMCAD.2017.8102260 [BibTex]
TECS Journal A
Demystifying Soft-Error Mitigation by Control-Flow Checking – A New Perspective on Its Effectiveness
Simon Schuster, Peter Ulbrich, Isabella Stilkerich, Christian Dietrich, Wolfgang Schröder-PreikschatACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems16.5sACM2017.
10.1145/3126503 [BibTex]
USENIX Conference A Best Paper Award
cHash: Detection of Redundant Compilations via AST Hashing
Christian Dietrich, Valentin Rothberg, Ludwig Füracker, Andreas Ziegler, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '17)USENIX Association2017Best Paper Award.
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LCTES Conference A
OSEK-V: Application-Specific RTOS Instantiation in Hardware
Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '17)ACM Press2017.
PDF Raw Data 10.1145/3078633.3078637 [BibTex]
ARCS Conference
Effectiveness of Software-Based Hardening for Radiation-Induced Soft Errors in Real-Time Operating Systems
Thiago Santini, Christoph Borchert, Christian Dietrich, Horst Schirmeier, Martin Hoffmann, Olaf Spinczyk, Daniel Lohmann, Flávio Rech Wagner, Paolo RechProceedings of the 2017 Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS '17)Springer-Verlag2017.
PDF 10.1007/978-3-319-54999-6_1 [BibTex]
TECS Journal A
Global Optimization of Fixed-Priority Real-Time Systems by RTOS-Aware Control-Flow Analysis
Christian Dietrich, Martin Hoffmann, Daniel LohmannACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems16.2ACM Press2017.
PDF Raw Data 10.1145/2950053 [BibTex]
ESE Invited Talk
SysWCET: Ende-zu-Ende-Antwortzeiten für OSEK-Systeme
Christian Dietrich, Peter WägemannTagungsband des Embedded Software Engineering Kongress 20172017.
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RTAS Conference A Outstanding Paper Award
SysWCET: Whole-System Response-Time Analysis for Fixed-Priority Real-Time Systems
Christian Dietrich, Peter Wägemann, Peter Ulbrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications (RTAS '17)IEEE Computer Society Press2017Outstanding Paper Award.
PDF Raw Data 10.1109/RTAS.2017.37 [BibTex]

2016

SQJ Journal
Experiences with Software-based Soft-Error Mitigation using AN-Codes
Martin Hoffmann, Peter Ulbrich, Christian Dietrich, Horst Schirmeier, Daniel Lohmann, Wolfgang Schröder-PreikschatSoftware Quality Journal24.1Springer US2016.
PDF 10.1007/s11219-014-9260-4 [BibTex]
DSPL Workshop
Function Multiverses for Dynamic Variability
Valentin Rothberg, Christian Dietrich, Alexander Graf, Daniel LohmannFoundations and Applications of Self* Systems2016.
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GPCE Conference B
Towards Scalable Configuration Testing in Variable Software
Valentin Rothberg, Christian Dietrich, Andreas Ziegler, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences (GPCE '16)2016.
PDF 10.1145/2993236.2993252 [BibTex]

2015

EDCC Conference
FAIL*: An Open and Versatile Fault-Injection Framework for the Assessment of Software-Implemented Hardware Fault Tolerance
Horst Schirmeier, Martin Hoffmann, Christian Dietrich, Michael Lenz, Daniel Lohmann, Olaf SpinczykProceedings of the 11th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC '15)2015.
PDF 10.1109/EDCC.2015.28 [BibTex]
OSPERT Workshop B
Back to the Roots: Implementing the RTOS as a Specialized State Machine
Christian Dietrich, Martin Hoffmann, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 11th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT '15)2015.
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LCTES Conference A
Cross-Kernel Control-Flow-Graph Analysis for Event-Driven Real-Time Systems
Christian Dietrich, Martin Hoffmann, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '15)ACM Press2015.
PDF Raw Data 10.1145/2670529.2754963 [BibTex]
Globale Kontrollflussanalyse von eingebetteten Echtzeitsystemen
Christian Dietrich, Martin Hoffmann, Daniel LohmannBetriebssysteme und Echtzeit, Echtzeit 2015, Fachtagung des gemeinsamen Fachausschusses Echtzeitsysteme von Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA) und Informationstechnischer Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG) sowie der Fachgruppe Betriebssysteme von GI und ITG, Boppard, 12. und 13. November 20152015.
10.1007/978-3-662-48611-5_14 [BibTex]
OSR Journal
The dataref versuchung
Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review: Special Issue on Repeatability and Sharing of Experimental ArtifactsACM Press2015.
PDF 10.1145/2723872.2723880 [BibTex]
Workshop
dOSEK: Maßgeschneiderte Zuverlässigkeit
Martin Hoffmann, Florian Lukas, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannBetriebssysteme und EchtzeitSpringer2015.
10.1007/978-3-662-48611-5_8 [BibTex]
RTAS Conference A Best Paper Award
dOSEK: The Design and Implementation of a Dependability-Oriented Static Embedded Kernel
Martin Hoffmann, Florian Lukas, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications (RTAS '15)IEEE Computer Society Press2015Best Paper Award.
PDF 10.1109/RTAS.2015.7108449 [BibTex]

2014

CASES Conference A
Team Up: Cooperative Memory Management in Embedded Systems
Isabella Stilkerich, Philip Taffner, Christoph Erhardt, Christian Dietrich, Christian Wawersich, Michael StilkerichProceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES '14)ACM Press2014.
PDF 10.1145/2656106.2656129 [BibTex]
USENIX Conference A
Static Analysis of Variability in System Software: The 90,000 #ifdefs Issue
Reinhard Tartler, Christian Dietrich, Julio Sincero, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '14)USENIX Association2014.
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HASE Conference B
A Practitioner's Guide to Software-based Soft-Error Mitigation Using AN-Codes
Martin Hoffmann, Peter Ulbrich, Christian Dietrich, Horst Schirmeier, Daniel Lohmann, Wolfgang Schröder-PreikschatProceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE '14)IEEE Computer Society Press2014.
PDF 10.1109/HASE.2014.14 [BibTex]
ISORC Conference C
Effectiveness of Fault Detection Mechanisms in Static and Dynamic Operating System Designs
Martin Hoffmann, Christoph Borchert, Christian Dietrich, Horst Schirmeier, Rüdiger Kapitza, Olaf Spinczyk, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC '14)IEEE Computer Society Press2014.
PDF 10.1109/ISORC.2014.26 [BibTex]

2013

PRDC Workshop
dOSEK: A Dependable RTOS for Automotive Applications
Martin Hoffmann, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC '13)IEEE Computer Society Press2013Fast abstract.
PDF 10.1109/PRDC.2013.22 [BibTex]
MSR Conference A
Linux Variability Anomalies: What Causes Them and How Do They Get Fixed?
Sarah Nadi, Christian Dietrich, Reinhard Tartler, Ric Holt, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '13)IEEE Computer Society Press2013.
PDF 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624017 [BibTex]
SOBRES Workshop
Failure by Design: Influence of the RTOS Interface on Memory Fault Resilience
Martin Hoffmann, Christian Dietrich, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software-Based Methods for Robust Embedded Systems (SOBRES '13)Gesellschaft für Informatik2013.
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2012

STTT Journal B
Revealing and Repairing Configuration Inconsistencies in Large-Scale System Software
Reinhard Tartler, Julio Sincero, Christian Dietrich, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Daniel LohmannInternational Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)14.5Springer-Verlag2012.
PDF 10.1007/s10009-012-0225-2 [BibTex]
OSR Journal
Configuration Coverage in the Analysis of Large-Scale System Software
Reinhard Tartler, Daniel Lohmann, Christian Dietrich, Christoph Egger, Julio SinceroACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review45.3ACM Press2012.
PDF 10.1145/2094091.2094095 [BibTex]
SPLC Conference
A Robust Approach for Variability Extraction from the Linux Build System
Christian Dietrich, Reinhard Tartler, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 16th Software Product Line Conference (SPLC '12)ACM Press2012.
PDF 10.1145/2362536.2362544 [BibTex]
AOSD-MISS Workshop
Understanding Linux Feature Distribution
Christian Dietrich, Reinhard Tartler, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Daniel LohmannProceedings of the 2nd AOSD Workshop on Modularity in Systems Software (AOSD-MISS '12)ACM Press2012.
PDF 10.1145/2162024.2162030 [BibTex]

2011

PLOS Workshop B
Configuration Coverage in the Analysis of Large-Scale System Software
Reinhard Tartler, Daniel Lohmann, Christian Dietrich, Christoph Egger, Julio SinceroProceedings of the 6th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS '11)ACM Press2011.
PDF 10.1145/2039239.2039242 [BibTex]