1. Proposal for Term Project Operating Systems, Fall 2018
J. H. Wang
Oct. 19, 2018

2. Options on Term Project
Implementation of selected OS components
Focused survey of recent developments in various OS platforms
OS-related academic paper presentation
Requirements
For option 1, it could be team-based with at most two persons
For options 2 and 3, you should do it on your own, NOT team-based

3. 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 and the main ideas of your ways to solve the problem
Experiment: an experimental design to verify your idea
Team member responsibility
The names and the expected responsible parts of each individual team member should be clearly specified

4. Possible Topics for Programming Projects
Modifying real OS kernel and performing tests
Creating/modifying kernel modules for networking, file systems, scheduling, …
Implementation and simulation of selected OS components
CPU scheduling algorithms (Ch.5)
Deadlock avoidance algorithms (Ch.7)
Page replacement algorithms, virtual memory manager (Ch.9)
Disk scheduling algorithms (Ch.12) …
Implementation of distributed systems
Any topic you think interesting and non-trivial to extend from our Programming Exercises

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

6. Possible Topics for Focused Survey
Topics should focus on the most important TECHNICAL details in recent developments in OS or distributed systems, for example,
“Workload prediction” and “resource provisioning” in cloud computing
“Efficient scheduling algorithms” in MapReduce framework
“Power management” in Android/iOS
“Developer toolkits” for wearable devices …
The topic must be specific, and technical details must be introduced, not just an overview!
E.g. “Principles on cloud privacy” is NOT a good topic in this class!

7. Proposal: for Paper Presentation
A one-page description of the academic paper(s) that is related to OS or distributed systems
The title and main ideas of the paper
No team work allowed
You have to prepare a 20-minute presentation of the major ideas of the paper
Your presentation should focus on the major parts of paper
Methods, experiments, analysis

8. Suggested Sources of Academic Papers
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 …

9. Proposal Submission Due: during the midterm week (Nov. 9, 2018)
Please submit to our homework submission site
Your proposal is subject to reviews, and possible suggestions on changes will be provided if there’s any conflicts or inappropriate topics

10. Required Items for Term Project
Proposal: (before Nov. 9, 2018)
Determine team members (Oct. 19, 2018)
Each team is required to submit a proposal, which is counted as part of the score
Presentation: (Dec. 21, 28, Jan. 4, 11)
The presentation schedule will be arranged for all teams
All presentations *must* be finished during the last four weeks
Report: (before Jan. 11 ,2019)
The presentation slides and source code/documentation are required as the final report

11. Any Questions or Comments?