Proposal for Term ProjectOperating Systems, Fall

2012J. H. Wang

Nov. 13, 2012

Term Project

• Options1. Programming of selected OS components2. Focused survey of recent developments in various OS

platforms3. 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

Any Questions or Comments?