CS 771/871 Syllabus

CS 771/871 Operating Systems

Title	CS 771/871 Advanced Operating Systems
Instructor	Chris Wild
Lectures	Tuesday & Thursday 4:20-5:30 PM
Office	Education Room 243-2
Office Hours	Tuesday&Thursday 2:00-4 PM Wed 4:00-5:00 PM or by appointment
Textbook	Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design, Pradeep K. Sinha, IEEE Press, 1997, ISBN 0-7803-1119-1
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
	Distributed Operating Systems, Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-219908-4

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.

Taxonomy of Distributed Systems
Design Issues
Communications Models
- Message Passing
- RPC
- Shared Memory
- Other
Synchronization
- Clock Sync
- Mutual Exclusion
- Election Algorithms
- Atomic Actions
- Deadlock
Resource Management
- Task Assignment
- Load Balancing
Process Management
- Threads
- Processor allocation strategies
- Scheduling
Fault Tolerant Systems
Distributed File Systems
- File Models
- File Sharing Semantics
- Coherence Issues
- Case Studies
Naming Issues
- Relationship between name and location
- Human/System oriented naming
- Name caches
Security, Authentification and Resource Protection
- Threats
- Crytography
- Authentification
- Access Control
- Digital Signatures
Case Studies
- Amoeba
- V-System
- Mach
- Chorus
- Others (as time permits)