Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)

Overview

Topics

• Internet architecture:

  Overlay architectures. Distributed hashing. Naming. Next generation network design. Peer to peer networking. Mobile and ad-hoc networking. Troubleshooting. Implications for energy efficiency.

• Security:

  Malware detection. Secure routing. Testbeds for security applications. Operating systems security. Intrusion detection/prevention. Availability. Authentication. Botnets and worms.

• Distributed Systems:

  Experimental testbeds. Distributed logging. Declarative networking.

• Operating systems:

  OS for sensor networks. Monitoring OS behavior for malware detection. Performance analysis. Programming languages for systems. Power aware computing.

• Network economics:

  Price of anarchy. Game theory.

• Technology for developing regions:

• Network measurement:

  Traffic characterization and modeling.

Research Centers

• Agile Design of Efficient Processing Technologies
• Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI)
• EPIC Data lab
• Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• International Computer Science Institute
• Networked Systems Lab
• Sky Computing Lab
• Software Principles for Advanced Networking

Faculty

Primary

• Eric Brewer (coordinator)
• Natacha Crooks
• David E. Culler
• Prabal Dutta
• Ali Ghodsi
• Joseph Gonzalez
• Jiantao Jiao
• Anthony D. Joseph
• Raluca Ada Popa
• Sylvia Ratnasamy
• Scott Shenker
• Dawn Song
• Matei Zaharia

Secondary

• Krste Asanović
• John Chuang
• Joseph M. Hellerstein
• Sagar Karandikar
• Richard M. Karp
• Randy H. Katz
• John D. Kubiatowicz
• Michael Lustig
• David A. Patterson
• Vern Paxson
• Alan J. Smith
• Ion Stoica
• David A. Wagner

Faculty Awards

• National Medal of Science: Richard M. Karp, 1996.
• ACM A.M. Turing Award: David A. Patterson, 2017. Richard M. Karp, 1985.
• ACM Prize in Computing: Eric Brewer, 2009.
• SIAM John von Neumann Lecture Prize: Richard M. Karp, 1987.
• Computers and Communications (C&C) Prize: Scott Shenker, 2015. David A. Patterson, 2004.
• Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame: Randy H. Katz, 2018. David A. Patterson, 2005.
• Harvey Prize: Richard M. Karp, 1998.
• Kyoto Prize: Richard M. Karp, 2008.
• MacArthur Fellow: Dawn Song, 2010.
• Okawa Prize: David E. Culler, 2013.
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Member: Scott Shenker, 2019. David A. Patterson, 2006. Richard M. Karp, 1980.
• National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member: Ion Stoica, 2024. Scott Shenker, 2012. Eric Brewer, 2007. David E. Culler, 2005. Randy H. Katz, 2000. David A. Patterson, 1993. Richard M. Karp, 1992.
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member: Dawn Song, 2025. Eric Brewer, 2018. Scott Shenker, 2016. David A. Patterson, 2006. Randy H. Katz, 1990. Richard M. Karp, 1980.
• Berkeley Citation: David E. Culler, 2021. David A. Patterson, 2016.
• UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award: David A. Wagner, 2006. Randy H. Katz, 1992. Richard M. Karp, 1986. David A. Patterson, 1982.
• Sloan Research Fellow: Natacha Crooks, 2025. Matei Zaharia, 2022. Raluca Ada Popa, 2018. Prabal Dutta, 2017. Michael Lustig, 2013. Sylvia Ratnasamy, 2012. Dawn Song, 2007. Ion Stoica, 2003. David A. Wagner, 2003. Joseph M. Hellerstein, 1998. Eric Brewer, 1997.

Related Courses

• CS 162. Operating Systems and System Programming
• CS 169. Software Engineering
• CS 262A. Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
• CS 266. Introduction to System Performance Analysis
• CS 268. Computer Networks
• CS 269. Advanced Topics in Distributed Computing Systems
• EE 122. Introduction to Communication Networks