The Chair for Operating Systems offers challenging tasks to motivated students. According to our current research projects our topics focus on operating system security, real-time systems, microkernels, and the Linux OS. Students keen to work on other, related topics are also welcome.

Please, contact the supervisors of specific topics for further details (e.g., concrete task, kind of assignment). Most topics can be conducted as thesis or student assistent job. You may visit us at INF 3rd floor for a chat about your interests.

Due to our strong collaboration with American and Australian Universities, we encourage students to write their thesis in English. Students not willing to write in English are welcome as well.

You may also have a look at our research seminar topic proposals.

Style guides, tips, and hints:

• General hints for writing theses (in German)
• Tips for structuring theses (in German)
• Hendrik Tews' advice on writing a thesis (2012)
• LaTeX template for theses
• http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gernot/style-guide.html
• http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~kevine/thesisguide.html

Microkernel

• Construction of a Cache Model for Predicting the Performance of System Calls

Miscellaneous

• Test Programs for Exploring CPU Cache Architectures and for Validating the Cache Simulation Tool Cache_sim
• Cache Coloring SMP Systems
• Reproducing Measurements

Networking

• High-Performance Userspace TCP/IP stack

Quality of service

• Transmission errors and resilience in wireless video streaming

Resilience

• Replicating Device Drivers

Scheduling

• Time Partitions

User-level components

• Distributed Execution with GCD
• NUMA-aware memory management
• Migration Sweet Spots

Verification

• Static Program Analysis of Low-Level Operating System Code

Virtualization

• QEMU as Virtual Machine Monitor on Fiasco.OC