CSE 598: Project

Fall 2018

Deadlines

0. 9/5 (Wed) 8:00am: Form project group
   
   • send me an email about your group.
1. 9/14 (Fri) 8:00am: Submit project proposal
   
   • Please discuss with me before deciding on the projects.
2. 10/12 (Fri) 8:00am: first checkpoint report
   
   • For system/tool building projects, you must show prototypes.
   • For study-based projects, you must show general statistics of your datasets, and concrete examples or case studies.
   • You will be presenting your checkpoint-1 results in class at 10/16 and 10/18.
3. 11/9 (Fri) 8:00am: second checkpoint report
   
   • For system/tool building projects, you must show primary results.
   • For study-based projects, you must show your numbers and findings.
   • You will be presenting your checkpoint-2 results in class at 11/13 and 11/15.
4. 12/11 (Tue) 14:00pm: Present your project (15 min)
   
5. 12/12 (Wed): Submit final report (6 pages max)
   

Reports and Code

Submission: Submit your reports and code to me via email.

Proposal: Your project proposal should describe what you plan to do, why it is interesting, how you plan to do it, and what you are not sure about. Also describe what resources you think you will need to carry out the project (e.g., VMs, datasets). The end product of the proposal is a crisp problem statement.

Checkpoint #1: Your checkpoint report should describe your progress on achieving the goals you included in your proposal. Clearly explain any changes you have made to the goal of your project based on your experience so far. Also, provide a concrete plan of what you will need to accomplish in the remaining weeks to complete your project.

Checkpoint #2: Similar as Checkpoint #1. And what's more, you must include primary results (e.g., small-scale measurement results, examples that your prototype can already handle, etc).

Final paper: Your final paper should be written like a research paper you read in class. The report should be no longer than 6 pages.

Code: You can host your code at GitHub or BitBucket, and send me the link. It is ok if you want to keep your code confidential, but please talk to me explicitly.

Paper/report format: Please format you reports and papers with the new USENIX paper template (2019 conferences).

Project Ideas

The projects could be (but not limited to) one of the following forms:

• Conduct an empirical study of a special type of reliability issues that occurred in real-world system deployments.
• Build a tool or a method that systematically uncovers reliability issues of existing software or system configurations.
• Measure certain reliability aspects of a special type of software or system configurations.