1. Proposal for Term Project Operating Systems, Fall 2008 J. H. Wang Nov. 5, 2008

2. Term Project Programming of selected OS components –team-based, 1-2 person Survey of recent developments in OS on various platforms –For example, Windows Vista, WinCE, … OS-related academic paper presentation –But, your should do it on your own (only 1 person), NOT team- based A schedule will be arranged for both paper presentation and system demonstration A proposal is needed after midterm (Nov. 19, 2008) –Introduction, methods used, experiment designs

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 in the main problem and the principal ideas of your ways to solve them –Experiment: design of your experiment to verify your idea –For team work members: the names and the expected responsible parts of each individual member should be clearly identified

4. Proposal (for Paper Presentation) A one-page description of which papers/topics you want to read and present –No team work allowed –You have to prepare a 20-minute presentation of the major ideas of the paper –Topics: OS or distributed systems-related –Possible sources: OS Conferences: SOSP, OSDI, … Distributed systems: ACM PODC, ICDCS, …

5. Possible Topics for Programming Programming of Selected OS components –CPU scheduling –Deadlock avoidance –Page replacement –Disk scheduling –… Any topic you think interesting and non- trivial to build from our optional Programming Exercises

6. Submission Due: after midterm (Nov. 19, 2008) And your proposal is subject to review and possible suggestions on changes

7. Questions?