User:Agember

Summer 2009 Log

May 17 - May 23

Mon 1pm to 5:30pm (4.5); Tues 2:30pm to 7pm (4.5); Wed 2pm to 5pm (3); Thurs 1:30pm to 5pm (3.5); Total: 15.5 hours

• Discussed projects with undergrads
• Set projected deadlines
• Developed telnet proof of concept: spawned shell on TTY opened on TCP
• Acquired reading material on network stack design in BSD and Linux
  • McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, John S. Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996.
  • Wehrle, Laus, Frank Pahlke, Hartmut Ritter, Daniel Muller, Marc Bechler. The Linux Networking Architecture: Design and Implementation of Network Protocols in the Linux Kernel. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.
• Selected paper for Tues, May 26: A measurement study of a commercial-grade urban wifi mesh

May 24 - May 30

Mon 3pm to 5:30pm, 8pm to 9pm (3.5); Tues 2:00pm to 5:30pm, 11pm to 11:30pm (4); Thurs 1:15pm to 5:30pm (4.25); Fri 1:15pm to 5:30pm (4.25); Total 16 hours

• Reviewed paper: A measurement study of a commercial-grade urban wifi mesh
• Read Chapter 11 and 12 in "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System" (notes on Trac)
• Discussed new network stack design (details on Trac)

May 31 - June 6

Mon 3pm to 6pm (3); Tues 8:30pm to 10pm (1.5); Wed 2:15pm to 5:15pm, 7:00pm to 8:30pm (4.5); Thurs 1:45pm to 5:45pm (4); Fri 2pm to 5pm (3); Total: 16 hours

• Discussed new network stack design
• Reviewed paper: Factored operating systems (fos): the case for a scalable operating system for multicores
• Read Chapter 4 (Address Discovery and Binding (ARP)) in "Internetworking With TCP/IP Vol II: Design, Implementation, and Internals"
• Cleaned-up and rewrote
  • Network stack related headers (net.h, network.h, ethpkt.h)
  • netUp, netRecv, netSend, netDown

July 19 - July 25

Vacation

July 26 - August 1

Vacation

August 2 - August 8

Vacation