An Application Specific Processor for Enhancing Dictionary Compression in Java Card Environment

Massimiliano Zilli, Wolfgang Raschke, Johannes Loinig, Reinhold Weiss, Christian Steger

2015

Abstract

Smart cards are low-end embedded systems used in the fields of telecommunications, banking and identification. Java Card is a reduced set of the Java standard designed for these systems. In a context of scarce resources such as smart cards, ROM size plays a very important role and dictionary compression techniques help in reducing program sizes as much as possible. At the same time, to overcome the intrinsic slow execution performance of a system based on interpretation it is possible to enhance the interpreter speed by means of specific hardware support. In this paper we apply the dictionary compression technique to a Java interpreter built on an application specific processor. Moreover, we move part of the decompression functionalities in hardware with the aim of speeding up the execution of a compressed application. We obtain a new interpreter that executes compressed code faster than a classic interpreter that executes non-compressed code

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Zilli M., Raschke W., Loinig J., Weiss R. and Steger C. (2015). An Application Specific Processor for Enhancing Dictionary Compression in Java Card Environment . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-758-084-0, pages 305-311. DOI: 10.5220/0005318703050311


in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs15,
author={Massimiliano Zilli and Wolfgang Raschke and Johannes Loinig and Reinhold Weiss and Christian Steger},
title={An Application Specific Processor for Enhancing Dictionary Compression in Java Card Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2015},
pages={305-311},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005318703050311},
isbn={978-989-758-084-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - An Application Specific Processor for Enhancing Dictionary Compression in Java Card Environment
SN - 978-989-758-084-0
AU - Zilli M.
AU - Raschke W.
AU - Loinig J.
AU - Weiss R.
AU - Steger C.
PY - 2015
SP - 305
EP - 311
DO - 10.5220/0005318703050311