Paul E. McKenney

43 papers A* 5A 3B 1Misc 1Journal 23Unranked 10

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2020	A	`conf`	An HTM-based update-side synchronization for RCU on NUMA systems. EuroSys Seongjae Park, Paul E. McKenney, Laurent Dufour, Heon Y. Yeom
2020	J	`jnl`	RCU Usage In the Linux Kernel: Eighteen Years Later. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Paul E. McKenney, Joel Fernandes, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Jonathan Walpole
2019	Misc	`conf`	A critical RCU safety property is... ease of use! SYSTOR Paul E. McKenney
2018	A*	`conf`	Frightening Small Children and Disconcerting Grown-ups: Concurrency in the Linux Kernel. ASPLOS Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, Alan S. Stern
2018	J	`jnl`	How verified (or tested) is my code? Falsification-driven verification and testing. Autom. Softw. Eng. Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Paul E. McKenney, Josie Holmes
2018	A	`conf`	Verification of tree-based hierarchical read-copy update in the Linux kernel. DATE Lihao Liang, Paul E. McKenney, Daniel Kroening, Tom Melham
2017	—	`conf`	Applying Mutation Analysis on Kernel Test Suites: An Experience Report. ICST Workshops Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Alex Groce, Paul E. McKenney
2017	J	`jnl`	Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? (v2017.01.02a). CoRR Paul E. McKenney
2017	—	`conf`	The RCU-Reader Preemption Problem in VMs. USENIX ATC Aravinda Prasad, K. Gopinath, Paul E. McKenney
2016	J	`jnl`	Verification of the Tree-Based Hierarchical Read-Copy Update in the Linux Kernel. CoRR Lihao Liang, Paul E. McKenney, Daniel Kroening, Tom Melham
2015	A*	`conf`	How Verified is My Code? Falsification-Driven Verification (T). ASE Alex Groce, Iftekhar Ahmed, Carlos Jensen, Paul E. McKenney
2013	J	`jnl`	Multi-core systems modeling for formal verification of parallel algorithms. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Michel R. Dagenais
2013	J	`jnl`	Structured Deferral: Synchronization via Procrastination. ACM Queue Paul E. McKenney
2013	J	`jnl`	Structured deferral: synchronization via procrastination. Commun. ACM Paul E. McKenney
2012	—	`conf`	Beyond expert-only parallel programming? RACES@SPLASH Paul E. McKenney
2012	J	`jnl`	Cleaning up Linux's CPU hotplug for real time and energy management. SIGBED Rev. Thomas Gleixner, Paul E. McKenney, Vincent Guittot
2012	—	`conf`	Retrofitted Parallelism Considered Grossly Sub-Optimal. HotPar Paul E. McKenney
2012	J	`jnl`	User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. Mathieu Desnoyers, Paul E. McKenney, Alan S. Stern, Michel R. Dagenais, Jonathan Walpole
2011	—	`conf`	Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Tables via Relativistic Programming. USENIX ATC Josh Triplett, Paul E. McKenney, Jonathan Walpole
2010	J	`jnl`	Scalable concurrent hash tables via relativistic programming. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Josh Triplett, Paul E. McKenney, Jonathan Walpole
2010	J	`jnl`	Why the grass may not be greener on the other side: a comparison of locking vs. transactional memory. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Paul E. McKenney, Maged M. Michael, Josh Triplett, Jonathan Walpole
2008	J	`jnl`	Introducing technology into the Linux kernel: a case study. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Paul E. McKenney, Jonathan Walpole
2008	J	`jnl`	Responsive systems: An introduction. IBM Syst. J. Robert F. Berry, Paul E. McKenney, Francis N. Parr
2008	J	`jnl`	The read-copy-update mechanism for supporting real-time applications on shared-memory multiprocessor systems with Linux. IBM Syst. J. Dinakar Guniguntala, Paul E. McKenney, Josh Triplett, Jonathan Walpole
2007	J	`jnl`	Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization. J. Parallel Distributed Comput. Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Brown, Jonathan Walpole
2007	—	`conf`	Why the grass may not be greener on the other side: a comparison of locking vs. transactional memory. PLOS@SOSP Paul E. McKenney, Maged M. Michael, Jonathan Walpole
2006	A	`conf`	Making lockless synchronization fast: performance implications of memory reclamation. IPDPS Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Brown
2003	J	`jnl`	Enabling autonomic behavior in systems software with hot swapping. IBM Syst. J. Jonathan Appavoo, Kevin Hui, Craig A. N. Soules, Robert W. Wisniewski, Dilma Da Silva, Orran Krieger, Marc A. Auslander, David Edelsohn, Benjamin Gamsa, Gregory R. Ganger, Paul E. McKenney, Michal Ostrowski, Bryan S. Rosenburg, Michael Stumm, Jimi Xenidis
2003	—	`conf`	Using Read-Copy-Update Techniques for System V IPC in the Linux 2.5 Kernel. USENIX ATC, FREENIX Track Andrea Arcangeli, Mingming Cao, Paul E. McKenney, Dipankar Sarma
2002	—	`conf`	Fairlocks A High Performance Fair Locking Scheme. IASTED PDCS S. Swaminathan, J. Stultz, J. F. Vogel, Paul E. McKenney
2001	J	`jnl`	Experience with an efficient parallel kernel memory allocator. Softw. Pract. Exp. Paul E. McKenney, Jack Slingwine, Phil Krueger
1999	J	`jnl`	Differential Profiling. Softw. Pract. Exp. Paul E. McKenney
1996	J	`jnl`	Selecting Locking Primitives for Parallel Programming. Commun. ACM Paul E. McKenney
1995	B	`conf`	Differential Profiling. MASCOTS Paul E. McKenney
1993	—	`conf`	Efficient Kernel Memory Allocation on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. USENIX Winter Paul E. McKenney, Jack Slingwine
1992	A*	`conf`	Efficient Demultiplexing of Incoming TCP Packets. SIGCOMM Paul E. McKenney, Ken F. Dove
1992	J	`jnl`	Efficient Demultiplexing of Incoming TCP Packets. Comput. Syst. Paul E. McKenney, Ken F. Dove
1991	J	`jnl`	Physical- and Link-Layer Modeling of Packet-Radio Network Performance. IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. Paul E. McKenney, Peter E. Bausbacher
1990	A*	`conf`	Packet Recovery in High-Speed Networks Using Coding and Buffer Management. INFOCOM Nachum Shacham, Paul E. McKenney
1990	A*	`conf`	Stochastic Fairness Queueing. INFOCOM Paul E. McKenney
1989	—	`conf`	High-Speed Event Counting and Classification Using a Dictionary Hash Technique. ICPP (3) Paul E. McKenney
1984	J	`jnl`	An Interleave Principle for Demonstrating concurrent Programs. IEEE Softw. Ted G. Lewis, Keith R. Spitz, Paul E. McKenney
1981	J	`jnl`	User Defined Files. ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. Kirk A. Bailey, Lee Boynton, Paul E. McKenney, Gary J. Oliver, Dave Regan

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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