Constantin Serban - Teaching

Constantin Serban
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Piscataway, NJ 08854

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Current classes

Past Teaching

• Security in E-Commerce Systems : CS547 Fall 05 - this was a graduate class and I was the TA.



• Operating System Design : CS416 - undergraduate senior class. This is a class I have been TA for several times in the past :
  Among others, Fall 02 and Fall 03
  Here we have had some very cool and instructive projects, whom I designed and, of course, implemented using mostly C:
  
  
  • Remote File System : This assignment consisted of an implementation of a file system server and a remote client library to handle the most common file-related system calls. It teaches a great deal of socket layer programming, and lots of details about the file-handling system calls
  
  
  
  • Virtual Memory Management Simulator : This project attempts to build a virtual memory management unit for multiprogrammed systems with paging. It teaches how the virtual addresses are translated into physical addresses, how the swapping works and what is the significance and the effects of memory traces over the replacement policies.
  
  
  
  • File System With Disk Emulator : This is a complete implementation of a file system where the disk is virtualized from a regular file. This is to emulate the presence of additional disks mapped into files on the regular file system. This project teaches the disk structure (superblock, FCB, etc), the OS functions related to file descriptor management, and the directory and file system call implementations. As a student, this is as close as one can get in implementing a file system.
  
  
  
  • Concurrent Determinant Computation : This is an assignment to warm up students in the use of multiprogramming techniques. It teaches processes (fork, exec, etc., shared memory, synchronization- semaphores) and threads, and forces a comparison of the two paradigms.
  
  
  
  • Parallel Sorting Using a Work Queue : This project, similar to the one above, teaches the use of processes and threads, with an emphasis on synchronization and coordinated computing. Very interesting to actually see it running.



• Computer Network Applications : MSIS375 I have been the lecturer for this undergraduate senior class held at the Management Science & Information Systems Department in Rutgers/Newark. The class web site can still be accessed here . There I have taught the TCP/IP stack, and a number of applications sitting on top of it. The projects were mostly oriented on web design, but very interesting nevertheless.



• Internet Technology and Computer Networks : CS352 I have been the TA (and held a number of lectures as well) for this senior undergraduate computer networks class. Here I have taught pretty much everything from the media, media access, link, TCP/IP, DNS, Client/Server, multimedia, and lots of communication security. Mostly Java projects. Unfortunately I did not keep the class websites around.



• Numerical Analysis : CS510 I have been a co-instructor for this graduate numerical analysis class. Beside teaching a few lectures, I was responsible with assignments, homeworks, and exams.

Last updated: Mon Jan 14 23:49:54 EST 2008