CS 574 Final Exam Topics

short form: anything from any paper all semester

1. Motivations and Microkernels
   1. Plan 9
   2. Exokernel
   3. Mach
2. Communications
   1. IPC
   2. RPC
   3. CORBA
   4. MPI
3. Security
   1. DES
   2. RSA
   3. Kerberos
4. Consistency Models
   1. Time
   2. Lazy Release Consistency
   3. Alewife (LimitLESS)
5. File Systems
   1. ReiserFS
   2. xFS
6. Mutual Exclusion
   1. Hoare Monitors
   2. Mesa Monitors
7. Mobile Computing
   1. RDP
   2. Mobile Security
   3. Cooltown