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Ben Leslie - Research Engineer

Trustworthy Embedded Systems Project

Research Interests

Mr Leslie's primary research interest is increasing the reliability of operating systems by exploring the performance of user-level device drivers. He is also researching the use of existing operating systems on top of the L4 microkernel.

Qualifications

Mr Leslie was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering, with first class Honours, at the University of New South Wales in 2002.

Contact Details

Email:benno@ok-labs.com
Web:http://www.benno.id.au

More contact information is available at the ERTOS Contacts page.

Publications

Best Papers

plain text PDF Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig, Yaowei Yang, Matthew Chapman, Peter Chubb, Ben Leslie and Gernot Heiser
Pre-virtualization: Soft layering for virtual machines
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan, August, 2008
Best Paper Award!


NICTA Papers

2010

plain text PDF Gernot Heiser and Ben Leslie
The OKL4 Microvisor: Convergence point of microkernels and hypervisors
Proceedings of the 1st Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems, New Delhi, India, August, 2010

2008

plain text PDF Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig, Yaowei Yang, Matthew Chapman, Peter Chubb, Ben Leslie and Gernot Heiser
Pre-virtualization: Soft layering for virtual machines
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan, August, 2008
Best Paper Award!

2006

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GrailOS: A micro-kernel based, multi-server, multi-personality operating system
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures , Victor Harbor, South Australia, Australia, January, 2006

2005

plain text PDF Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig, Matthew Chapman, Peter Chubb, Ben Leslie and Gernot Heiser
Pre-virtualization: Slashing the cost of virtualization
Technical Report PA005520, NICTA, October, 2005
plain text link Ben Leslie, Peter Chubb, Nicholas Fitzroy-Dale, Stefan Götz, Charles Gray, Luke Macpherson, Daniel Potts, Yueting (Rita) Shen, Kevin Elphinstone and Gernot Heiser
User-level device drivers: Achieved performance
Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 20(5), 654–664, (September, 2005)
See TR PA005043 for a preprint
plain text PDF Ben Leslie, Peter Chubb, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale, Stefan Götz, Charles Gray, Luke Macpherson, Daniel Potts, Yueting (Rita) Shen, Kevin Elphinstone and Gernot Heiser
User-level device drivers: Achieved performance
Technical Report PA005043, NICTA, July, 2005
plain text PDF Ben Leslie, Carl van Schaik and Gernot Heiser
Wombat: A portable user-mode Linux for embedded systems
Proceedings of the 6th Linux.Conf.Au, Canberra, April, 2005

2004

plain text PS Ben Leslie, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale and Gernot Heiser
Encapsulated user-level device drivers in the Mungi operating system
Proceedings of the Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures 2004, Victor Harbor, South Australia, Australia, January, 2004
plain text PS Daniel Potts, Charles Gray, Ben Leslie and Gernot Heiser
A secure, language independent, high performance component interface
Proceedings of the Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures 2004, Victor Harbor, South Australia, January, 2004

2003

plain text PDF Ben Leslie and Gernot Heiser
Towards untrusted device drivers
Technical Report UNSW-CSE-TR-0303, School of Computer Science and Engineering, March, 2003

2002