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
  
• Disk scheduling
  
• 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)
• Linux Kernel and Driver Programming (May.2010@tl.ntu)
• Linux Network drivers (trace sis900.c) (pdf)
• Homework: snull porting to 2.6.3x kernel and snull_tx_timeout() bug fix (answer)
• Linux Kernel and Driver Programming (June.2010@tl.ntu)
• Homework #1: embed_example.zip porting to kernel 2.6 (pdf) (answer)
• Homework #2: mini-kernel development: scheduling and synchronization (pdf) (platform) (answer)
• Linux Kernel and Driver Programming (Oct.2011@tl.ntu)
• Using GNU Compiler and Binutils by Example (source code)
• Homework #2: mini-kernel development: scheduling and synchronization (platform)
• Introduction to Linux Block Drivers (pdf)
• Page Cache in Linux 2.6 (reference reading) (pdf)

Talks and Presentation Slides

Linux Kernel

• 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)
• Linux Kernel Debugging - QEMU and KGDB (html)
  

Other topics

• Building Linux Systems with QEMU (pdf)
• GDB Tutorial (html)
• 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