Topics |
Description |
Readings |
Architecture Basics and OS Structures |
Computer-System Organization, Computer-System Architecture, Operating-System Structure, Operating-System Operations and Services, Computing Environments, System Calls, OS Design Paradigms, OS Generation, System Boot |
OSC Chap. 1 and 2 |
Process Management |
Processes, Threads, CPU Scheduling, Process and Thread Synchronization, Deadlocks |
OSC Chap. 3 through 7 |
Memory Management |
Contiguous Allocation, Paging, Segmentation, Virtual Memory, Demand Paging, Page Replacement Algorithms, Thrashing, Memory-Mapped Files, Kernel Memory |
OSC Chap. 8 and 9 |
Storage Management |
File-System Interface, File System Implementation, Allocation Methods, Efficiency and Performance Issues, Recovery, NFS, I/O Systems, Mass-Storage Structure, Disk Scheduling, Swap Space, RAID Structure |
OSC Chap. 10 through 13 |
Protection and Security |
Access Matrix, Access Control, Program Threats, System and Network Threats, Basic Cryptography, User Authentication |
OSC Chap. 14 and 15 |
Distributed Systems |
Fundamentals of Distributed Systems, Communication Structure, Robustness, Distributed File Systems, Time and Global States, Distributed Coordination and Agreement |
OSC Chap. 17, DS Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.5.1 |
Virtual Machines |
Fundamentals of Virtual Machine Technologies, Types of Virtual Machines, Process and System Virtual Machines, Para-virtualization, OS support for Virtual Machines |
OSC Chap. 16, VM1, VM2, VM3 |