Operating Systems

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Catalog Description

Aim

The aim of this course is to introduce students to operating systems concepts.

Objectives

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

1. describe the purpose and functions of an operating system;
2. design and implement programs to perform simple operating system tasks; and
3. evaluate the performance of different operating system algorithms.

Topics (based on ACM's 2013 Curriculum Guidelines)

1. OS/Overview of Operating Systems
2. OS/Operating System Principles
3. OS/Concurrency
4. OS/Scheduling and Dispatch
5. OS/Memory Management
6. OS/Security and Protection
7. OS/Virtual Machines
8. OS/Device Management
9. OS/File Systems
10. OS/Real Time and Embedded Systems
11. OS/Fault Tolerance
12. OS/System Performance and Evaluation
13. SF/Cross-Layer Communications
14. SF/Resource Allocation and Scheduling
15. SF/Virtualization and Isolation

Evaluation/Grading(Tentative)

(A) 3 Long Exams	45%
(B) Quizzes/Homeworks	10%
(C) Project	10%
(D) Laboratory	35%
(E) Prefinal	A+B+C+D
(F) Final Exam	100%
(G) Final Grade	20%xF+80%xE

Passing grade is 55%. No grade of 4.0 will be given. Grading scale is shown below.

0.00	54.99	5.0
55.00	59.99	3.0
60.00	64.99	2.75
65.00	69.99	2.5
70.00	74.99	2.25
75.00	79.99	2.0
80.00	84.99	1.75
85.00	89.99	1.5
90.00	94.99	1.25
95.00	100	1.0

Attendance Policy

Attendance will be checked every meeting. Students with seven(7) or more absences in the lecture or four(4) or more absences in the lab will be automatically dropped from the course.

Collaboration Policy

Honor Code

• Properly acknowledge help received.
• No looking at solutions/programs from previous years.
• No sharing of code with other students.
• Be ready to explain your code.

Google Classroom: TBA

Lecture

Meeting	Date	Topic	Reading/Slides/Videos
1	1/14/2020 T	(no meeting)
2	1/16/2020 Th	(no meeting)
3	1/21/2020 T	Introduction	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
4	1/23/2020 Th	Persistence	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
5	1/28/2020 T	Process Abstraction	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
6	1/30/2020 Th	Process API	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
7	2/4/2020 T	Virtualizing the CPU with control	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
8	2/6/2020 Th	Timer	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
9	2/11/2020 T	Scheduling with I/O	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
10	2/13/2020 Th	Multiprocessor Scheduling	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
11	2/18/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
12	2/20/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
13	2/25/2020 T	EXAM 1	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
14	2/27/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
15	3/3/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
16	3/5/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
17	3/10/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
18	3/12/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
19	3/17/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
20	3/19/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
21	3/24/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
22	3/26/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
23	3/31/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
24	4/2/2020 Th	EXAM 2	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
25	4/7/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
26	4/9/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
27	4/14/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
28	4/16/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
29	4/21/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
30	4/23/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
31	4/28/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
32	4/30/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
33	5/5/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
34	5/7/2020 Th		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
35	5/12/2020 T		[Readings] [PDF] [Video]
36	5/14/2020 Th	EXAM 3	[Readings] [PDF] [Video]

Homework