Proposal for Term ProjectOperating Systems, Fall

2008J. H. Wang

Nov. 5, 2008

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

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

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, …

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

Submission

• Due: after midterm (Nov. 19, 2008)• And your proposal is subject to

review and possible suggestions on changes

Questions?