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

List of "possible" 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 period. Some topics (those with no presenter yet) are filled in an advance as a suggestion.

You will write a summary for each week - you can choose from any of the three topics that are presented. You should also submit a summary on the day that you present, and you may do a summary on the same topic that you present on.

	Presenter	Date	Presentation Topic
			Historical Perspective & Design
1	Terrence	08/31	Hydra : The Kernel of a Multiprocessor Operating System, Wulf et all (pdf)
		08/31
		08/31
			OS Structures & Design
2	Anirban	09/07	OS Structures : Monolithic Kernels (summary paper for this topic is here - but also look here ) (then focus on linux). Summary paper for this presentation will be the
3	Stephen	09/07	OS Design : Hints (center piece) & "Worse it better" (see list) (pdf)
4	Nick	09/07	OS Structures Microkernels: Liedtke's On µ-kernel Construction. (wiki) (pdf)
			Process / Communication
5	Eboni	09/14	Survey of VM Research (see list) (contrast WMWare & Xen) (wiki)
6	Joshua K.	09/14	Microsoft window evolution: Useful links: Microsoft Kernel Comparison (Wikipedia) History of the Microsoft Kernels (Wikipedia)
7	James	09/14	Sherman et al, "Trace-Driven" ( pdf )

			Threads / Events / Errors
8	Ashley	09/21	Why are events a bad idea (pdf) (for some background (pdf))
9	Trevor	09/21	Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library (pdf)
10	Robert M.	09/21	OS Error / RT Scheduling ( Mars Path Finder) (html) please look at Reeves follow-up as well (html)
			User-Level Interprocess Communication (pdf)

			Scheduling
11	Fan	09/28	Anderson. "Spin Lock Alternatives" ( pdf )
12	Jesse	09/28	Waldspurger & Weihl, "Lottery Scheduling ( pdf )
13	Gordon	09/28	Remote Method Invocations(RMI) tutorial and comparison to CORBA & java sockets (here & here- rmi-corba, here - rmi-sockets and here-tutorial)
			Distributed Systems
		10/05	Anderson, et al. "Serverless Network Systems" (pdf)
14	Robert E.	10/05	Feeley, et al "Global Memory Management" (pdf)
15	Jeremy	10/05	Map Reduce
			Synchronization & Misc
16	Curtis	10/12	Bit Torrent (pdf)
17	Brian	10/12	Chord (pdf)
18	Joseph	10/12	Symbian (pdf)

			Cloud & Kernel Design
19	Corey	10/19	Amazon EC2 (URL)
20	Lee	10/19	Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels (SOSP 2009) [Kernel Design]
21	Jennifer	10/19	Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn't your OS?(HotOS 2009)

			Position Talks / Second Round / Teams of 2. Goal: engage the audience, mainstream issues today.
9,10, 11,13	Stephen, Corey Smith, Vince (Spamming), Curtis	11/09	Theme: Nuisances Topic 1: Current Issues of 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	Trevor, Robert, Jennifer, Fan	11/03	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)
1,2 3,4	Terrance, Anirban,	10/26	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	James, Ashleigh	11/16	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 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	Josh, Joseph Jess, Lee	11/30	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) Topic 3: Delux topic: Mobile Computing Optional Reading: Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right? (HotOS 2005)