(2) Singhal and Shivaratri, Advanced Operating Systems, McGraw Hill, 1994. Sid Chatterjee uses this book also for CS 203.
(3) Research papers addressing concepts not covered in the text, listed below.
(4) I plan to create and distribute a set of class notes for the course. The URL http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dewan/242/f96/notes/notes.html points to the notes I used last time I taught this course. It will give you an idea of what to expect in this offering.
A grade will be assigned based on performance on programming assignments, written assignments, and exams. Exams will constitute 45% of the grade and assignments will constitute the other 55%. Class participation and extra credit will be used to decide if a borderline grade should be upgraded. You are encouraged to discuss the assignments with fellow students but required to write/code the solutions/programs individually. Also you cannnot use solutions from previous offerings of the course. Not following these rules is a violation of the honour code policy.
The following is a tentative 15-week schedule.
(1) Function and Structure of an Operating System, Xinus, Heavyweight and Lightweight processes.
(2) Process Management.
(3) Interprocess Communication: Message Passing and other Schemes.
(4) Distributed IPC: Internetworking and Kernel-Based Remote Procedure Call.
(5) Input/Output: Device Driver Organization and Terminal Driver.
(6) Process Coordination: Duality of Operating System Structures, Synchronizing Abstract Data Types.
(7) File Management: File Operations and Physical Representation.
(8) Protection: Access Matrix, Unix, AFS, and Multics Protection
(9) Protection: Capability- and Object- Based Operating Systems
(10) Multiprocessor Systems: Cocurrency Abstractions, Time and Space Scheduling
(11) Multiprocessor Systems: Dynamic Scheduling/User-Level RPC
(12) Distributed Systems: Implementing Distributed Memory and Process Migration
(13) Mobile Systems: Scheduling, IPC, and File Access
(14) Real-Time Systems: Scheduling
(15) Organization of Operating Systems: Hierarchical, Object-, Monitor- Microkernel-, Server-, and Application- Based Implementations.
(2) Implement Message Passing (Due Week 6).
(3) Implement Distributed Message Passing and Time Management (Due Week 8).
(4) Homework (Due Week 9).
(5) Implement Distributed Terminal Driver (Due Week 11).
(6) Implement Shell ( Due Week 13).
(7) Write Paper (on topic of your choice) (Due Week 15).
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