Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

Android “fragmentation” is back in the news this week, thanks to the Angry Birds game needing to release two different versions for Android. But I have a better one: Google itself needing to make two ...

External fragmentation occurs when unused gaps arise between blocks of allocated memory. This situation can happen, for example, when an application allocates three blocks in succession and then frees ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the critical challenges of data management and security within cloud environments by exploring the use of Time-Variant Secure Data Fragmentation and Reassembly ...