Class Outline

This is a tentative schedule from another semester. It is simply here to give you an idea of what topics are usually covered. It refers to three texts - the required text (OSC=Operating System Concepts,6^th ed.) and two optional texts (MOS = Modern Operating Systems, APUE = Advanced Programming in UNIX Environment). The material in the optional texts is just that - optional. The references are provided for those who want additional background in these areas.

• Week 1: Introduction and historical perspective
  Readings: OSC Chap 1, 2.1, 2.5, 2.6; MOS Chap 1
• Week 2: Process Management, IPC & Threads
  Readings: OSC Chap 3, 4, 5 ( 4.5.5, 4.6.2, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 to be read by students)
• Week 3-4: Synchronization: semaphores and monitors, deadlocks
  Readings: OSC Chap 7 (except 7.9), 8; MOS Chap 2.2,2.3
  Birrell, An Introduction to Programming with Threads
• Week 5: Process Scheduling
  Readings: OSC Chap 6; MOS Chap 2.4
• Week 6-7: Address spaces, multiprogramming, and I/O
  Readings: OSC Chap 2.3-2.5, 13, material from Appendix A
  Ritchie and Thompson, The UNIX Timesharing System
• Week 8-9: Memory management, address translation, and virtual memory
  Readings: OSC Chap 9, 10
• Week 10-12: File systems & Secondary Storage
  Readings: OSC Chap 11, 12, 14; MOS Chap 4.1-4.3,5.2
• Week 13-14: Security, Protection and Cryptography
  Readings: OSC Chap 18, 19;
• Remaining time if any: Distributed systems
  Readings: OSC Chap 15