CS 771/871 Syllabus

CS 771/871 Operating Systems

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SYLLABUS

Title	CS 771/871 Operating Systems
Instructor	Chris Wild
Lectures	Thursday 7:10-10:00 PM
Office	Education Room 243-2
Office Hours	Thursday 6:00-7:10 PM Wed 4:00-5:00 or by appointment
Textbook	Distributed Operating Systems, Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-219908-4
Other References	Distributed Operating Systems: The Logical Approach, Andrzej Goscinski, Addison-Wesley, 1991, ISBN 0-201-41704-9
	Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems, Mukesh Singhal, Niranjan Shivaratri, McGraw-Hill, 1994, ISBN 0-07-057572-X
	Centralized and Distributed Operating Systems, Gary Nutt, Prentice Hall, 1992, ISBN 0-13-122326-7
	Distributed Computing: A Practical Synthesis of Networks, Client-Server Systems, Distributed Applications and Open Systems, Amjad Umar, Prentice Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-13-036252-2

Course Evaluation: Mid-term(20%) and Final Exams(35%). Semester Project (30%). Other (homework, class participation: 15%).

Honor Policy: All students are expected to adhere to the honor policy of Old Dominion University.

Course content, and schedule.

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Contents

Taxonomy of Distributed Systems
Design Issues
Communications Models
- ISO OSI
- ATM
- Client/Server
- RPC
- Other
Synchronization
- Clock Sync
- Mutual Exclusion
- Election Algorithms
- Atomic Actions
- Deadlocks
Process Management
- Threads
- Processor allocation strategies
- Scheduling
Fault Tolerant Systems
Security, Authentification and Resource Protection
File Systems
Case Studies
- Amoeba
- Mach
- Others

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Schedule

August 29: Taxonomy, Design Issues (Chapter 1)
September 5:
September 12:
September 20:
September 27:
October 3:
October 10:
October 17: Mid Term Exam
October 24:
October 31:
November 7:
November 14:

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Last updated: October 01, 1996.