Hao-Ran Liu

Education

• M.S.: National Chung Cheng University, Computer Science (Advisor: Prof. Tien-Fu Chen)
  
• B.S.: National Chung Cheng University, Computer Science
  

Research Interests

• Operating Systems
• I/O notification support for network servers
• Threading model and process scheduling
  
• Filesystems
• Object-based storage device
• Distributed filesystems
  
• Embedded Systems
• Computer Networks
  

Courses

• Embedded Linux Kernel Programming handout (Nov.2005@tl.ntu)
• Linux Kernel and Driver Programming handout (June.2006@tl.ntu) (pdf) (audio)
  

Talks and Presentation Slides

Linux Kernel 2.6

• Introduction to the Linux Kernel (pdf)
  
• Introduction to Linux start-up (pdf)
  
• Physical Memory Management in Linux (pdf)
• Linux I/O Schedulers (pdf)
• Linux Kernel Synchronization (pdf)
• Linux Interrupt Handling (pdf)
  

Other topics

• Using GNU Compiler and Binutils by Example (pdf) (source code)
• Introduction to CVS (pdf) and Administration of a CVS Server (pdf)
• Introduction to PPP (pdf)
  

Publications

Journal Papers

• "Scalable Locality-aware Event Dispatching Mechanism for Network Servers", (with Tien-Fu Chen), Software, IEE Proceedings, Vol. 151, No. 3, 2004