Thur 24th Aug

Introduction:Introduces the course and its contents; Discusses the history of OSs.

No reading

Tues 29th Aug

Architectural Support for Operating Systems: Interrupts and Traps; I/O and device drivers; OS Protection; OS Structure; Booting.

Chaps 1 and 2 (Extra reading: Chap 13)

Thur 31st Aug

Processes and Interprocess Communication: What is a process, and why do we have them? How are they created and destroyed? How do processes communicate?

Chap 3

Tues 5th Sept

Threads: How do they different from processes? What are the main issues in using them?

Chap 4

Thurs 7th Sept

CPU Scheduling: How does the OS decide which user processes/threads to schedule? 

Chap 5

Tues 12th -
Tues 19th Sept

Synchronization: How do threads share the same memory without stepping on each others toes? How do threads coordinate their execution? Locks, spinlocks, semaphores, monitors, and conditional variables.

Chap 6

Thurs 21st -
Tues 26th Sept

Deadlocks: How to prevent synchronized threads from mutually blocking each other and halting

Chap 7

Thurs 28th Sept

Memory Management: Main memory concepts - paging, segmentation.

Chapter 8

Tues 3rd Oct -
Thurs 5th Oct

Virtual Memory
slide set 1 and slide set 2) (lectures given by Hakim Weatherspoon)

Chapter 9

Tues 10th Oct

Fall Break.

Thurs 12th Oct

MIDTERM

Tues 17th Oct

Disks and RAID

Chap 12

Thurs 19th -
Thurs 26th Oct

File Systems: How are filesystems implemented, what are the performance implications for various designs? Hard/Soft Links, Caching, Consistency, Disk block allocation, Log structured filesystems.

Chaps 10 and 11

Tues 31st Oct -
Tues 7th Nov

Networking

Saltzer, Reed and Clark, End-to-End Arguments in System Design. Wikipedia: TCP & DNS

Thurs 9th Nov - Tues 14th Nov

Security

Chap 15

Thurs 16th -
Tues 21st Nov

Distributed Systems

Chap 14 and Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System

Thurs 23rd

Thanksgiving.

Tues 28th -
Thurs 30th Nov

Course review.

The whole book ;-)