-- CSCI 4730 / 6730 Operating Systems: Projects --

List of topics and presenters

Here are the list of papers that we covered over the course of the semester. Please pick from different 'themes' or time.

	Presenter	Date	Presentation Topic
			Historical Perspective & Design
1	Vijay Nadadur	09/01	UNIX Implemetation, Plan 9
2	Patrick Smith	09/01	OS Design : Hints (center piece) & "Worse it better" (see list) (pdf)
3	Animesh Thakre	09/01	Survey of VM Research (see list) (contrast WMWare & Xen) (wiki)
			OS Structures & Design
4	Paul Duke	09/08	OS Structures : Monolithic Kernels (start here ) (then focus on linux)
5	Parthavi Yadav	09/08	OS Structures : Design of MINIX ( pdf ) (also text book)
6	Chris Muthig	09/08	OS Structures Microkernels: Liedtke's On µ-kernel Construction. (wiki) (pdf)
			Process / Communication
6	Animesh Thakre	09/15	Survey of VM Research (see list) (contrast WMWare & Xen) (wiki)
7	Patrick Brannen	09/15	Microsoft window evolution: Useful links: Microsoft Kernel Comparison (Wikipedia) History of the Microsoft Kernels (Wikipedia)
8	Benjamin Pucket	09/15	Sherman et al, "Trace-Driven" ( pdf )

			Threads / Events / Errors
9	Keshia Esteras	09/22	Why are events a bad idea (pdf) (for some background (pdf))
10	Russel Newquist	09/22	Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library (pdf)
11	Matt Byrne	09/22	OS Error / RT Scheduling ( Mars Path Finder) (html) please look at Reeves follow-up as well (html)
			User-Level Interprocess Communication (pdf)
12	Wes McKettric	09/23 (Thu)	Google Chrome OS
13	Robert Harrison	9/23 (Thu)	Android OS
			Scheduling
14	Yi Mou	09/29	Anderson. "Spin Lock Alternatives" ( pdf )
15	Lethel Wilson	09/29	Waldspurger & Weihl, "Lottery Scheduling ( pdf )
16	Reese Troupe	09/29	Remote Method Invocations(RMI) tutorial and comparison to CORBA & java sockets (here & here- rmi-corba, here - rmi-sockets and here-tutorial)
			Distributed Systems
17	Wesley York	10/06	Anderson, et al. "Serverless Network Systems" (pdf)
18	Kevin Warrick	10/06	Feeley, et al "Global Memory Management" (pdf)
19	Manuel Correa	10/06	Map Reduce
			Synchronization & Misc
20	Dee Harris	10/13	Bit Torrent (pdf)
21	Carl Meyer	10/13	Chord (pdf)
22	Richard Harris	10/13	Symbian (pdf)

			Position Talks / Second Round / Teams of 2. Goal: engage the audience
1,2 3,4	Patrick Smith & Chris Muthig Brett Meyer & Patrick Brennan	10/20	Theme: Nuisances Topic 1: Computer Viruses and Containment: (1) Starting Point: A Gentle Introduction and Classification ( pdf ) (2) Possible Extension: A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications: Confining the Wiley Hacker ( pdf ) OR Cover a specific virus (use wikipedia, study how it spread and how it was remedied, and talk about 'lessons learned' Topic 2: Spamming: BotGraph: large scale spamming botnet detection ( pdf )
5,6 7,8	Topic 1: Vijay Nadadur Topic 2: Wes McKettrick & Lee Harrison	10/27	Theme: Cryptography/Encryption Case Studies Background: Wikipedia Topic 1: Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys (pdf) Topic 2: TrueCrypt: On-the-fly encryption (freeware, see here wikipedia)
9,10 11,12	Topic 1: Animesh Thakre & Russel Newquist Topic 2: Dee Harris & Yi Mou	11/03	Theme: Cloud Computing Background: Wikipedia, 3 page article & slides Topic 1: Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (pdf) Topic 2: DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Languages (best OSDI 2008 paper) (get it from here) Optional Reading 1: Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds (pdf) Optional Reading 2: Amazon EC2 (URL) Optional Reading 3: Google App Engine Optional Reading 4: Microsoft Azure (URL)
13,14 15,16	Topic 1: Manual Correa & Kevin Warrick Topic 2: Paul Duke & Reese Troup	11/10	Theme: Kernels Go here for links to papers: SOSP 2009, HotOS, 2009 [we will do topic 1 and either topic 2 or 3] Topic 1: FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (SOSP 2009) Topic 2: Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels (SOSP 2009) Topic 3: The Multikernel: A New OS Architecture for Scalable Multicore Systems (SOSP 2009) Optional Reading: Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn't your OS?(HotOS 2009)
17,18 19,20	Topic 1: Wesley York & Matt Byrne Topic 2: Benjamin Puckett & Keshia Esteras	12/01	Theme: Virtualization Background: Wikipedia Comparison Go here for link to papers: OSDI 2008, OSDI 2010, HotOS 2005) Topic 1: Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines (best OSDI 2008) Topic 2: The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization (best OSDI 2010) Optional Reading: Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right? (HotOS 2005)