Memory Management

Memory Management is the operating system functionality responsible for allocating, deallocating, and organizing computer memory resources among executing programs and system processes to ensure efficient and secure access to physical and virtual memory.

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6.3K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

467

Variants

Memory Management For Embedded SystemsMemory Management In Embedded Systems

Parents

Embedded SystemsOperating SystemsProgramming LanguagesSystems Programming

Children

Automatic Memory ManagementBounded Memory AllocationCache ManagementCopy-on-writeDemand PagingHeap ManagementLifetime AnalysisManual Memory ManagementMemory AllocationMemory Compaction

Publications

3.1K

Scalar Timing in Memory

John Gibbon, Russell M. Church, Warren H. Meck · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1984 · 1.8K citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +11

How many memory systems are there?

Endel Tulving · American Psychologist · 1985 · 1.8K citations

Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Systems +12

A study of replacement algorithms for a virtual-storage computer

L. A. Belady · IBM Systems Journal · 1966 · 1.7K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +12

Practical Aspects of Memory

Eugene B. Zechmeister, Michael M. Gruneberg, Peter E. Morris et al. · The American Journal of Psychology · 1980 · 1.5K citations

Social Sciences, Computer Systems, Psychology +11

Hitting the memory wall

Wm. A. Wulf, Sally A. McKee · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 1995 · 1.5K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Access Management +6

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Authors

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Onur Mutlu
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
48 publications · 7.6K citations
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Kathryn S. McKinley
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
34 publications · 2.7K citations
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Benjamin G. Zorn
Microsoft (United States), United States
28 publications · 2.2K citations
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Nikil Dutt
University of California, Irvine, United States
28 publications · 1.7K citations
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Mahmut Kandemir
Pennsylvania State University, United States
33 publications · 2.1K citations
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Communications of the ACM
50 publications · 7.8K citations
35
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IEEE Transactions on Computers
78 publications · 3.9K citations
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ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
68 publications · 6.3K citations
34
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices
84 publications · 3.8K citations
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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
33 publications · 3.1K citations
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