Due by 11:59pm, Friday, May 4.
This assignment is required for CSC456 students only.
Assignment overview
You need to turn in a survey paper on an OS topic of your choosing.
Your paper has to provide a brief historical perspective on this OS
topic. It needs to give a fairly detailed coverage on the
state-of-art research and engineering efforts in this area. What is
not required (but would be very helpful for getting you a high grade)
is some suggestion on possible future directions of improving the
current status from the research or engineering perspective. You
should provide accurate references to related work you mention in the
survey. There is no specific requirement on the length of the survey,
but I am expecting something with at least 2000 words. Below I
provide some suggested topics of this survey paper, along with a few
starting points. These starting points are far from being complete.
Note that you are free (and encouraged) to choose something
outside these topics.
Systems reliability and debugging
Distributed file systems