PhD Student
Katherine is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University. Her advisor is Professor Rich West. Her research projects include the following:
Real-Time Flash Storage: a real-time flash-based file system for Quest, our real-time operating system designed for embedded and safety-critical applications. We are using a PCIe-based NAND storage platform on an FPGA to develop the SSD firmware.
Mixed-Criticality Scheduling: we developed a scheduling technique in the Quest real-time operating system, which integrates the time-budgeted management of I/O operations with Sporadic Server scheduling of tasks. We show that in a real implementation with I/O, our mixed-criticality scheduling method outperforms previous work.
Publications
Katherine Missimer, Richard West, “Partitioned Real-Time NAND Flash Storage”, in Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, December 11-14, 2018. pdf
Eric Missimer, Katherine Missimer, Richard West, “Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with I/O”, in Proceedings of the 28th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Toulouse, France, July 5-8, 2016. pdf
Katherine Zhao, Jonathan Appavoo, Amos Waterland, Elaine Angelino and Margo Seltzer. POSTER: System-Level Integration and Exploitation of Machine Learning. Presented at the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, October 8-10, 2012, Hollywood, CA.