The Case for Case Study assignments in Undergraduate Operating Systems Courses

2007 ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
Alessio Gaspar ◽  
Sarah Langevin
Keyword(s):  
Operating Systems

More Reliable Lifetime Distribution of System: A New Statistical Heuristic Model with Numeric Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 2872-2878
Author(s):  
Mojtaba Mahdavi ◽  
Mohamad Mahdavi
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Extreme Value Distribution ◽  
Reliability Function ◽  
Lifetime Distribution ◽  
Value Distribution ◽  
Heuristic Model ◽  
System A ◽  
High Degree

—This paper explores a new method to find most reliable lifetime distribution function of systems, via an applied heuristic model. In most operating systems which complicity of system obligates high degree of reliability, this model will be use to propose a more appropriate reliability function between lifetime distribution based and another that is based on relevant Extreme Value distribution. A numeric study will be reviewed to clear the concepts of this paper.

scholarly journals Insights into Students' Conceptual Understanding of Operating Systems: A Four-Year Case Study in Online Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 170-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Pamplona ◽  
Isaac Seoane ◽  
Javier Bravo-Agapito ◽  
Nelson Medinilla
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Operating Systems

A Security Blueprint for E-Business Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 80-94
Author(s):  
Jun Du ◽  
Yuan-Yuan Jiao ◽  
Jianxin (Roger) Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Operating Systems ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Business Architecture ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Security Control ◽  
Physical Access

This chapter develops a security blueprint for an e-business environment taking advantage of the three-tiered e-business architecture. This security blueprint suggests best practices in general. It involves (1) security control by layers — from physical access, to network communication, to operating systems, to applications, and (2) different stages of the management process, including planning, deployment, administration, and auditing. Also reported is a case study of the implementation of the proposed security blueprint in a Singapore multinational corporation. Such issues as security control analysis, management process analysis, and cost-benefits analysis are discussed in detail.

scholarly journals Using AWS Cloud resources in Operating Systems undergraduate class during the pandemic: a case study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Gradvohl
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Remote Education ◽  
Computational Resources ◽  
Computing Infrastructure ◽  
Undergraduate Class ◽  
Cloud Resources

Pandemic brought new forms of remote education into the discussion. However, facilitating students' access to good computing infrastructure is not a widespread task. This paper presents a report on the use of computing resources in the AWS cloud by students in the Operating Systems class during the pandemic, from March to July 2020. The use of these computational resources was essential to consolidate some of the concepts covered in the course and, at the same time, to complement the students' knowledge about cloud computing. The results of this survey were very positive. Students said they learned more about the resources available in the cloud, the potential of cloud computing, and how to use it. Besides, they were able to create their remote infrastructure to carry out the work proposed in the Operating System class.

scholarly journals On Memory-Block Traversal Problems in Model Checking Timed Systems

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Larsson ◽  
Paul Pettersson ◽  
Wang Yi
Keyword(s):  
Model Checking ◽  
State Space ◽  
Operating Systems ◽  
Memory Management ◽  
Timed Automata ◽  
Model Checker ◽  
Timed Systems ◽  
Memory Block ◽  
Start Up

A major problem in model-checking timed systems is the<br />huge memory requirement. In this paper, we study the memory-block<br />traversal problems of using standard operating systems in exploring the<br />state-space of timed automata. We report a case study which demonstrates<br />that deallocating memory blocks (i.e. memory-block traversal)<br />using standard memory management routines is extremely time-consuming.<br />The phenomenon is demonstrated in a number of experiments by<br />installing the Uppaal tool on Windows95, SunOS 5 and Linux. It seems<br />that the problem should be solved by implementing a memory manager<br />for the model-checker, which is a troublesome task as it is involved in<br />the underlining hardware and operating system. We present an alternative<br />technique that allows the model-checker to control the memory-block<br />traversal strategies of the operating systems without implementing<br />an independent memory manager. The technique is implemented in the<br />Uppaal model-checker. Our experiments demonstrate that it results in<br />significant improvement on the performance of Uppaal. For example, it<br />reduces the memory deallocation time in checking a start-up synchronisation<br />protocol on Linux from 7 days to about 1 hour. We show that the<br />technique can also be applied in speeding up re-traversals of explored<br />state-space.

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