Synchronization and Mutual Exclusion in XV6
Practice problems on XV6 synchronization primitives including spinlocks, sleep/wakeup mechanisms, interrupt disabling, atomic operations, context switch atomicity, and concurrent access patterns.
Process Management in xv6 – Fork, Context Switching and Practice
Practice problems on XV6 process management covering fork system call, child process creation, context switching, interrupt handling, disk I/O, process scheduling, and kernel stack management.
Networking Performance Engineering and I/O Optimization
Problem set on networking performance optimization covering interrupt handling, event-driven I/O, multi-process servers, socket programming, TCP performance, cache optimization, thread pools, and disk buffer caching.
Cross-Layer Protocol Design and Future Research
Dissertation conclusion on cross-layer wireless protocol design benefits. Discusses SoftPHY hints applications in HARQ, successive interference cancellation, multi-user MIMO, and future research directions for wireless network optimization.
Conflict Maps and MAC Protocol Design
MAC protocol design using conflict maps for exposed terminal problem. Covers SoftCMAP and CMAP protocols, concurrent transmission detection, distributed conflict map construction, and aggregate network throughput improvement.