Report on a current operating systems topic

Assignment

Write a 1½-page report on a current operating systems topic. Your audience for this report is a busy computer science professional who knows operating systems but may not be an expert in this particular area, and who has hired you to produce a short summary of what is important. Assume that your boss leads the information-technology R&D staff of a large aerospace corporation that develops, integrates and maintains software in both technical and financial areas specific to the company.

Reading list and topics

Each topic for this assignment is illustrated by a single article published. Your report should summarize and critique one article taken from the following list. The report's critique should answer questions like: what is the importance of the topic for your organization? which parts of the topic are most important? what are the article's strengths and weaknesses? Some of the topics are fairly large; the intent is that you focus on the operating system aspects of each topic, and not other technical components, management, economics, or politics.

• Berenberg A, Calder B. Deployment archetypes for cloud applications. ACM Comput Surv. 2023;55(3):61. doi:10.1145/3498336.
• Singh RM, Awasthi LK, Sikka G. Towards metaheuristic scheduling techniques in cloud and fog: an extensive taxonomic review. ACM Comput Surv. 2023;55(3):50. doi:10.1145/3494520.
• Costa B, Bachiega J, Rebouças de Carvalho L, Araujo APF. Orchestration in fog computing: a comprehensive survey. ACM Comput Surv. 2023;55(2):29. doi:10.1145/3486221.
• Zhang Z, Qi J, Cheng Y et al. A retrospective and futurespective of rowhammer attacks and defenses on DRAM. 2022. arXiv:2201.02986.
• Soldani J, Brogi A. Anomaly detection and failure root cause analysis in (micro) service-based cloud applications: a survey. ACM Comput Surv. 2023;55(3):59. doi:10.1145/3501297.
• Hamdani SWA, Abbas H, Janjua AR et al. Cybersecurity standards in the context of operating system: practical aspects, analysis, and comparisons. ACM Comput Surv. 2022;54(3):57. doi:10.1145/3442480.
• Thyagaturu AS, Shantharama P, Nasrallah A, Reisslen M. Operating systems and hypervisors for network functions: a survey of enabling technologies and research studies. IEEE Access. 2022;10:79825–73. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3194913.
• Stavrinos T, Berger DS, Katz-Bassett E, Lloyd W. Don't be a blockhead: zoned namespaces make work on conventional SSDs obsolete. HotOS '21. 2021. 144–51. doi:10.1145/3458336.3465300.

Submit

Submit on Bruin Learn a 1½-page report in PDF form. Your report should follow the guidelines in Resources for written reports and oral presentations, in particular its guidelines for citing others, for USENIX templates for papers, and for how to write good papers. It is OK to go a bit over 1½ pages if the excess material consists merely of figures and/or citations.