Proposal for Term Project Operating Systems, Fall 2012 J. H. Wang Nov. 13, 2012

Term Project Options 1.Programming of selected OS components 2.Focused survey of recent developments in various OS platforms 3.OS-related academic paper presentation Requirements –For option 1, it could be team-based with 1-2 persons –For options 2 and 3, you should do it on your own, NOT team- based –A proposal is needed after midterm (Nov. 27, 2012) Introduction, methods used, experiment designs –A presentation schedule will be arranged for both paper presentation and system demonstration

Proposal: for Programming Projects A one-page description of your idea about term project – Introduction : an overview of the problem that you ’ re trying to deal with – Methods : possible issues in the problem and the main ideas of your ways to solve them – Experiment : an experimental design to verify your idea For team members: the names and the expected responsible parts of each individual member should be clearly identified

Possible Topics for Programming Projects Programming and evaluations of selected OS components –CPU scheduling algorithms (Ch.5) –Deadlock avoidance algorithms (Ch.7) –Page replacement algorithms (Ch.9) –Disk scheduling algorithms (Ch.12) –… Any topic you think interesting and non- trivial to build from our optional Programming Exercises

Proposal: for Focused Survey A one-page description of the major topics you want to survey –The major topics in the recent developments of OS or distributed systems General overview are not recommended –No team work allowed –You have to prepare a 20-minute presentation of the major ideas in your topical survey

Possible Topics for Focused Survey Topics should focus on selected parts in recent developments in OS or distributed systems, for example, “Power management” in Android “Security” in cloud computing “Parallel programming libraries” in multicore multiprocessors “Developer toolkits” for Microsoft Windows 8 … General overview is not recommended

Proposal: for Paper Presentation A one-page description of the academic paper(s) you want to read –The major topics of the paper should be OS or distributed systems-related Methods, experiments –No team work allowed –You have to prepare a 20-minute presentation of the major ideas of the paper

Possible Sources of Academic Papers Possible sources: –Conferences OS Conferences: SOSP, OSDI, … Distributed systems conferences: ACM PODC, ICDCS, … –Journals TOCS: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems TPDS: IEEE Transactions on distributed Systems JPDC: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Distributed Computing …

Submission Due: after midterm (Nov. 27, 2012) Please submit to our homework submission site And your proposal is subject to reviews and possible suggestions on changes

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