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CS7934 -- Computer Systems Seminar (Fall 2006)
Friday 2:00-3:15, MEB 3147 (Large Conference Room)
Primary Organizer:
John Carter
Helpers: Jay
Lepreau, John Regehr,
and Sneha Kasera
Overview
In CS7934 we will read and discuss technical papers from recent or
imminent top-tier systems conferences (e.g., SOSP, OSDI, NSDI,
SIGCOMM, ...). The specific papers discussed will be chosen based on
the interests of the class attendees. On occasion people may present
their own research or perhaps a trip report from a major conference.
We aim to be informal but substantive.
Here is a course overview document,
including a list of suggested papers for presentation and discussion.
You can check out what we did last semester here.
Mailing list
To get on the class mailing list use mailman to subscribe to csl-sem.
Credit
Although the course is listed as ``variable credit'', the course is
only available for one (1) credit in most circumstances -- if you wish
to take the course for more than one credit you will need to get
approval from the instructor. Those taking the course for credit must
read all of the papers, submit a short summary of each paper prior to
class (PDF, Postscript, Latex),
participate in each discussion, and facilitate the discussion of at
least one paper. We urge students to sign up for one credit if you're
going to be attending anyway.
Schedule
| Week
| Date
| Topic(s)
| Facilitator
| Paper(s)
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| 1 |
9/1 |
Distributed storage |
Carter |
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for
Structured Data, Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat,
Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra,
Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber (Google).
OSDI '06 |
| 2 |
9/8 |
Network experimentation |
Ricci |
In VINI Veritas:
Realistic and Controlled Network Experimentation",
Andy Bavier, Nick Feamster, Mark Huang, Larry Peterson, and
Jen Rexford.
SIGCOMM '06 |
| 3 |
9/15 |
Distributed systems,
debugging |
Gebhardt |
Pip: Detecting the
Unexpected in Distributed Systems, Patrick Reynolds,
Charles Killian, Janet Wiener, Jeffrey Mogul, Mehul Shah, and
Amin Vahdat. NSDI '06
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| 4 |
9/22 |
Runtime Verification |
Chakravarthy |
Java-MaC: a Rigorous
Run-time Assurance Tool for Java Programs,
Moonjoo Kim, Sampath Kannan, Insup Lee, Oleg Sokolsky,
Mahesh Viswanathan
*Note: This seminar will be held in Flux Library (4560C MEB) |
| 5 |
9/29 |
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NO CLASS |
| 6 |
10/6 |
Device fingerprinting |
Ramesh |
Remote
Physical Device Fingerprinting, Tadayoshi Kohno (UCSD),
Andre Broido (CAIDA), and KC Claffy (CAIDA) |
| 7 |
10/13 |
Sensor net monitoring |
Cooprider |
Fidelity and Yield in a Volcano Monitoring Sensor Network,
Geoff W. Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Jeff Johnson, Jonathan Lees,
and Matt Welsh |
| 8 |
10/20 |
Program Analysis, Verification, Storage Systems |
Radhakrishnan |
EXPLODE: A Lightweight, General System for Finding Serious Storage System Errors, Junfeng Yang, Can Sar, and Dawson Engler, Stanford University. OSDI '06 |
| 9 |
10/27 |
IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks |
Park |
Robust Rate Adaptation for 802.11 Wireless Networks, Starsky H.Y. Wong, Hao Yang, Songwu Lu and Vaduvur Bharghavan MOBICOM '06 |
| 10 |
11/3 |
Security through controlling information flow |
Johnson |
Making information flow explicit in HiStar, Nickolai Zeldovich, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Eddie Kohler, and David Mazieres; OSDI '06 |
| 11 |
11/10 |
Support for garbage collection |
Vakkalanka |
CRAMM: Virtual Memory Support
for Garbage-Collected Applications, Ting Yang, Emery Berger,
Scott Kaplan, and Elliot Moss; OSDI '06 |
| 12 |
11/17 |
Defense against Sybil attacks |
Probst |
SybilGuard: Defense Against
Sybil Attacks via Social Networks, Haifeng Yu, Michael
Kaminsky, Phillip Gibbons, and Abraham Flaxman;
SIGCOMM '06 |
*Note: This seminar will be held in Flux Library (4560C MEB)
| - |
11/24 |
Thanksgiving |
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Holiday -- NO CLASS |
| 13 |
12/1 |
Safe OS extensions |
Archer |
SafeDrive: Safe
and Recoverable Extensions Using Language-Based Techniques
*Note: This seminar will be held in Flux Library (4560C MEB) |
| 14 |
12/8 |
Replica Maintenance |
Sachin |
Efficient Replica Maintenance for Distributed
Storage Systems , Byung-Gon Chun, Frank Dabek, Andreas
Haeberlen, Emil Sit, Hakim Weatherspoon, M. Frans Kaashoek,
John Kubiatowicz, and Robert Morris,
NSDI 06
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Potential Papers
See overview handout for specific
suggestions. In general, papers from upcoming/recent
OSDI,
SIGCOMM,
SIGOPS,
NSDI,
SIGMETRICS,
SENSYS,
and similar conference proceedings are good sources of papers for
discussion.
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