In computer science, hierarchical protection domains, often called protection rings, are mechanisms to protect data and functionality from faults (by...

each segment has a protection ring for reading, writing and execution; an attempt by a process with a higher ring number than the ring number for the segment...

network, a ring network affords fault tolerance to the network because there are two paths between any two nodes on the network. Ring protection is the system...

Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) is an effort at ITU-T under G.8032 Recommendation to provide sub-50ms protection and recovery switching for...

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: 153  This preemptive scheduler usually runs in the most privileged protection ring, meaning that interruption and then resumption are considered highly...

Section Shared Protection Ring (MS-SP Ring), which offers a shared protection mode, and Multiplex Section Dedicated Protection Ring (MS-DP Ring), which offers...

Write protection is any physical mechanism that prevents writing, modifying, or erasing data on a device. Most commercial software, audio and video on...

(computing) Privilege separation Protection ring setuid sudo Saltzer, Jerome H.; Schroeder, Michael D. (1975). "The protection of information in computer systems"...

mode separate from kernel mode involves operating system protection rings. Protection rings, in turn, are implemented using CPU modes. Typically, kernel...