Advances in Operating Systems

The seminar introduces the new advances in operating system research arisen in recent years, with special interest for embedded devices. It takes into account several aspects, including new approaches to scheduling, issues related to real time systems, effective management of new hardware features, security and problems related to the development of OSs for emerging personal/sensing devices such as PDAs, sensor networks, wearable computers, etc.

The following is a list (not exhaustive) of possible topics for student seminars:

• OS design and architectures

• Dynamic reconfiguration

• Quality of Service guarantees

• Support for multi-processor and embedded architectures

• Security

• Fault tolerance

• Energy management

• Scheduling algorithms

• Memory management

• Device drivers

• Real-time support

• OSs for embedded and tiny devices

Date	Speaker	Title	File(s)
Mon 12 June	Susanna Pelagatti University of Pisa	Introduction	Slides
Mon 12 June	Claudio Scordino	The O(1) Linux scheduler	1 Slides
Mon 19 June	Giuseppe Lipari Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna	A hierarchical scheduling model for Component-based real-time systems
Mon 3 July	Paolo Gai CEO, Evidence S.R.L.	Operating systems for small multicore system-on-a-chip	1 2
Tue 11 July	Luca Veraldi	Xen and the art of virtualization	1 2 3 4 5 Slides
Tue 11 July	Andrea Romei	Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) Algorithms for Hard Real-Time Systems	1 2 3 4 5 Slides
Tue 18 July	Francesco Nidito	ZFS: Sun new distributed filesystem
Tue 18 July	Giacomo Terreni	Iron File System	1
Wed 27 Sept 15:30	Yan He	ELF: an Efficient Flash File System	1
Mon 2 Oct 9:30	Diego Puppin	Encrypting Virtual Memory	1 2
Mon 2 Oct 10:30	Sara Corfini	A Scalable Distributed FileSystem	1
Mon 9 Oct 9:30	Flavio Baronti	EMERALDS: a Small-Memory Real-Time Microkernel	1 2
Mon 9 Oct 10:30	Jinghua Gao	The K42 Kernel for cache-coeherent multiprocessors	1
Mon 16 Oct 9:30	Carlo Bertolli	Fault Tolerance issues in Parallel Operating Systems	1 2 3 4 5 6
Mon 16 Oct 10:30	Vincenzo Ciancia	Fuse: a Filesystem in Userspace	1
Mon 23 Oct 9:30	Claudia Sodini	Nano-RK: a real-time OS for sensor networks	1 2 3
Mon 30 Oct 9:30	Valerio Grossi	Nooks: driver reliability	1
Mon 6 Nov 9:30	Alessandro Passaro	FS2: Dynamic Data replication in Free Disk Space for improving Disk Performance and Energy Consumption	1
Mon 6 Nov 10:30	Paolo Milazzo	Performance of Multithreaded Chip Multiprocessors and Implications for Operating System Design	1 2
Mon 20 Nov 9:30	Francesca Lonetti	On the Effectiveness of Address-Space Randomization	1 2 3
Mon 20 Nov 10:30	Robert Hovannisjan	Understanding The Linux Virtual Memory Manager	1
Mon 27 Nov 9:30	Massimilano Meneghin	The Singularity project	1 2

The seminars is now finished for information contact Susanna Pelagatti or Claudio Scordino.