CS 3530
Advanced Topics in Distributed and Real-time
Spring 2002
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:45 to 7:05 PM
234 Eberly Hall
Instructor
Rami Melhem (melhem@cs.pitt.edu)
323 Eberly
phone: 624-8426
Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 to 3:00
Course Description
This seminar course will introduce the students to the foundations of
real-time systems and power management in computer systems.
The emphasis is on understanding predictability and
resource management, investigating power management techniques
and exploring fault tolerance issues in real-time systems.
Specific
real-time fault-tolerant and power management schemes will be discussed.
Requirements and grading:
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Homeworks and one exam in February (25%).
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Paper presentations and class participation (25%).
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Class project and report (50%).
The course consists of
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Presentations by the instructor
Scheduling in Real-time systems
Reward-based systems
Types of redundancy (hardware, software and time redundancies).
Performance and reliability evaluation techniques.
Fault tolerance in distributed systems.
Power management techniques
Fault tolerance and power management in real-time systems.
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Presentations by students.
Each student will have to read, understand and discuss one paper per week.
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Presentations and Demonstrations of Class Projects
Each student will present a proposal and a final demonstration of a project
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