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Exploring Data Communication at System Level Through Reverse Engineering: A Case Study on USB Device Driver

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Computer Engineering and Networking

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 277))

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Interactions among operating system, drivers, and peripheral devices are important for users to understand data communication at low system level, system architecture, and hardware programming. In this chapter, we study low-level data communication and resource management by conducting the development of a USB device driver. A reverse engineering approach has been adopted in this study, and we focus on exploring the USB protocol and developing a device driver for the Linux operating system. We have performed various experiments to evaluate the device driver from different aspects, and all testing results are remarkably good. We believe this work can provide users a clear practical understanding of data communication from the hardware level to user space applications as well as theoretical foundations to reproduce any unsupported peripheral hardware devices.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, 7800 York Road, Towson, MD, 21204, USA

    Leela Sedaghat, Brad Duerling & Ziying Tang

  2. Institute of Cognitive and Intelligent Computing, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Xiaoxi Huang

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Correspondence to Ziying Tang .

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  1. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA

    W. Eric Wong

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, People’s Republic

    Tingshao Zhu

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Sedaghat, L., Duerling, B., Huang, X., Tang, Z. (2014). Exploring Data Communication at System Level Through Reverse Engineering: A Case Study on USB Device Driver. In: Wong, W.E., Zhu, T. (eds) Computer Engineering and Networking. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01766-2_38

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