This course is for students enrolled in one of the following courses.
| Course name | Instructor | Unique number |
| CS395T: Topics in Distributed Systems | L. Alvisi | 49500 |
| CS395T: Operating System Issues for WAN Systems | M. Dahlin | 49495 |
| CS395T: Topics in Multimedia Networking | H. Vin | 49470 |
This course will be co-taught by Lorenzo Alvisi (lorenzo@cs, 471-9792), Mike Dahlin (dahlin@cs, 471-9549), and Harrick Vin (vin@cs, 471-9732). You can contact the instructors through e-mail.
This is an advanced systems course with an emphasis on research, designed to conduct preliminary exploration of the problems and techniques involved in designing C0PE, a Consistent 0-administration Personal Environment.
In this course, we will explore the issues that arise when individual users own, interact with, and manage dozens of information access devices. Such an environment raises several difficult technical challenges, including (1) providing a consistent view of the underlying data from different access devices and (2) driving the incremental cost of adding and maintaining additional devices near zero.
We will cover topics that relate broadly to four research areas:
The course will combine presentation of tutorials on key technologies, lectures from external speakers, weekly project reviews and presentations.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
| Week | Monday | Wednesday |
| 1 | - | Course Introduction |
| 2 | Invited Talk | Overview of Projects |
| 3 | Project Discussion | Group Formation and Project Discussion |
| 4 | Finalize Project Groups | Distributed State Maintenance |
| 5 | Project Review | Distributed State Maintenance |
| 6 | Project Review | Resource Discovery and Directory Services |
| 7 | Project Review | Resource Discovery and Directory Services |
| 8 | Project Proposal Presentations | Project Proposal Presentations |
| 9 | Project Proposal Presentations | Project Proposal Presentations |
| 10 | Project Review | Security |
| 11 | Project Review | Security |
| 12 | Project Review | Mobile Networking |
| 13 | Project Review | Mobile Networking |
| 14 | Final Project Presentation | Final Project Presentation |
| 15 | Final Project Presentation | Final Project Presentation |
Bring your written project checkpoints to class on the day they are
due. Your third of the class will work with you to inspect the checkpoint,
offer feedback, and either sign off of the
checkpoint or ask you to refine the checkpoint before they pass it. Keep
all of you checkpoints on-line in a directory, and also keep the notes
on written feedback from class in a binder. At the end of the semester
when you turn in your final report, you will also turn in your checkpoints
and binder.
| Wednesday Feb 2 | Project teams formed, initial topic preferences |
| Friday Feb 4 | Project topic selected |
| Monday Feb 7 | Initial Reading List and 2 Paper Critiques |
| Monday Feb 14 | 3 Paper Critiques, Project Pre-Proposal |
| Monday Feb 21 | Written Proposal |
| Monday Feb 28 - Wed Mar 8 | Proposal Presentation,Referee Reports |
| Monday Mar 13 | Response to referee reports, deliverables timeline, Reading list |
| Monday Mar 20 | Milestone based review, Paragraph-level outline of into + evaluation |
| Monday Mar 27 | Milestone based review, Draft intro |
| Monday April 3 | Milestone based review, Draft related work |
| Monday April 10 | Milestone based review |
| Monday April 17 | Milestone based review |
| Monday April 24 - Wed May 3 | Final Presentation |
| Wednesday May 10 | Written Final Report and project binder |
Students will be expected to read the assigned papers, meet weekly deadlines, lead tutorials, prepare a detailed project proposal, critique project proposals from other students, complete the project, and deliver a final project presentation.
The course will be intense; each student will be expected to provide a written progress report each week.
Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Harrick Vin