Dongyan Xu Email: dxu@cs.purdue.edu Office: LWSN 1173 Phone: 494-6182
Time: 1:30PM - 2:45PM, TuTh Place: LWSN 1106 Office Hour: by appointment
History and renaissance of virtualization technology; OS-level vs. language-level virtual machines; Virtual networking; Virtual machine mobility; Application to network and distributed system security; Application to Grid and autonomic computing; Application to service provisioning;
Textbooks: None Reading list: follow this link for the reading materials and course schedule.
CS503 and CS422, or consent of instructor.
Every student is expected to (1) present papers from the reading list, (2) participate in discussion during and after each presentation, and (3) complete a course project related to the general topic of this course but not limited to the specific topics covered by the papers presented. Final grade breakdown: 50% on the project, including final and checkpoint reports; 25% on paper presentation; and 25% on participation in discussion.