| Week | Date | Topic(s) | Facilitator(s) | Paper(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/26 | — | Eide | no meeting — organizational email |
| 2 | 9/2 | memory forensics | Eide | Screen after Previous Screens: Spatial-Temporal Recreation of Android App Displays from Memory Images. Brendan Saltaformaggio et al. In USENIX Security ’16, Aug. 2016. |
| 3 | 9/9 | network traffic management | Wong | An Internet-Wide Analysis of Traffic Policing. Tobias Flach et al. In SIGCOMM ’16, Aug. 2016. |
| 4 | 9/16 | mobile network management | Syed | Proteus: A Network Service Control Platform for Service Evolution in a Mobile Software Defined Infrastructure. Syed and Van der Merwe. In MobiCom ’16, Oct. 2016. To appear. |
| 5 | 9/23 | implementing data-plane algorithms | Webb | Packet Transactions: High-Level Programming for Line-Rate Switches. Anirudh Sivaraman et al. In SIGCOMM ’16, Aug. 2016. |
| 6 | 9/30 | data-plane specialization | Hancock | Dataplane Specialization for High-performance OpenFlow Software Switching. László Molnár et al. In SIGCOMM ’16, Aug. 2016. |
| 7 | 10/7 | compiler testing | McConville | Finding and Analyzing Compiler Warning Defects. Chengnian Sun et al. In ICSE ’16, May 2016. |
| 8 | 10/14 | — | — | no meeting — University fall break |
| 9 | 10/21 | research tools and replication | Eide | On the Techniques We Create, the Tools We Build, and Their Misalignments: A Study of KLEE. Eric F. Rizzi et al. In ICSE ’16, May 2016. |
| 10 | 10/28 | programmable software switches | Ahmed | PISCES: A Programmable, Protocol-Independent Software Switch. Muhammad Shahbaz et al. In SIGCOMM ’16, Aug. 2016. |
| 11 | 11/4 | secure containers | Johnson | SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX. Sergei Arnautov et al. In OSDI ’16, Nov. 2016. |
| 12 | 11/11 | unikernels | Zaheer | Jitsu: Just-In-Time Summoning of Unikernels. Anil Madhavapeddy et al. In NSDI ’15, May 2015. |
| 13 | 11/18 | network management | Quinn | Taking the Blame Game out of Data Centers Operations with NetPoirot. Behnaz Arzani et al. In SIGCOMM ’16, Aug. 2016. |
| 14 | 11/25 | — | — | no meeting — Thanksgiving break |
| 15 | 12/2 | high-availability networks | Nguyen | Evolve or Die: High-Availability Design Principles Drawn from Google's Network Infrastructure. Ramesh Govindan et al. In SIGCOMM ’16, Aug. 2016. |
| 16 | 12/9 | configuration management | Duerig | Asserting Reliable Convergence for Configuration Management Scripts. Oliver Hanappi et al. In OOPSLA ’16, Nov. 2016. |
The fall 2016 offering of CS 7934 will cover a variety of systems topics, with an eye toward two goals.
The first is to increase participants' familiarity with recent and important results in the area of computer systems research. Attendees will read and discuss papers from recent and imminent top-tier systems conferences: e.g., SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, SIGCOMM, FAST, systems-related security conferences, and so on. Attendees will typically discuss one paper each week. Papers will be selected for their relevance to participants' research or upcoming Utah visitors. In contrast to some recent offerings of the seminar, there is no preset “focus topic” for fall 2016. One can anticipate, however, that the semester will include discussions about operating systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, datacenters, networking, and security.
The second is to be a venue for student presentations. Every student participating in the seminar will be required to lead at least one meeting during the semester. This may be a “formal” research presentation—ideally of a student's current work—or it may be an analysis of the research papers chosen for a seminar meeting.
CS 7934 is often called “the CSL seminar.” The name CSL is historic.
To get on the class mailing list, use Mailman to subscribe to csl-sem.
The course syllabus contains important information for students, including the course's policies on grading and cheating.
Students may enroll for one (1) credit. Although the University lists the course as “variable credit,” the two- and three-credit options are not currently available. Please contact the instructor if you would be interested in enrolling for more than one credit.
Those taking the course for credit must read all of the assigned papers, submit a short summary of each assigned paper prior to class (PDF, LaTeX), participate in each discussion, and facilitate at least one seminar meeting during the semester. Refer to the syllabus for further information.
Upcoming and recent conference proceedings are good sources of papers for discussion. Below are links to some relevant conference series.
| Semester | Focus Topic(s) |
|---|---|
| Spring 2016 | no focus topic chosen |
| Fall 2015 | no focus topic chosen; many systems security papers |
| Spring 2015 | no focus topic chosen |
| Fall 2014 | no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’14 papers |
| Spring 2014 | no focus topic chosen; many systems security papers |
| Fall 2013 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’13 papers |
| Spring 2013 | reversible and “time-traveling” debugging |
| Fall 2012 | modern networking and network management; peer-review process |
| Spring 2012 | systems approaches to dynamic problem detection and repair |
| Fall 2011 | datacenter architectures and issues |
| Spring 2011 | malicious software, i.e., malware |
| Fall 2010 | systems approaches to security |
| Spring 2010 | testbed-like infrastructures for cloud computing and scientific computing |
| Fall 2009 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’09 papers |
| Fall 2008 | no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’08 papers |
| Summer 2008 | no focus topic chosen; informal biweekly meetings |
| Spring 2008 | no focus topic chosen |
| Fall 2007 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’07 papers |
| Fall 2006 | no focus topic chosen; many OSDI ’06 papers |
| Fall 2005 | no focus topic chosen; many SOSP ’05 papers |
| Spring 2005 | no focus topic chosen; many NSDI ’05 papers |