Lectures

A preliminary version of lecture notes will be posted before each class. An updated version will be posted right after each class. Suggested readings are provided for two alternative textbooks. Of course, you only need to read one of them.
Note: Schedules are subject to changes, please check back frequently.

Date Lecture notes Readings
Jan 18, Wednesday Introduction Tanenbaum 1.1-1.3
SGG chapter 1
Jan 23, Monday Operating system organization Tanenbaum 1.4-1.7
SGG chapter 2-3
Jan 25, Wednesday Processes and threads Tanenbaum 2.1-2.2
SGG chapter 4, 5
Jan 30, Monday CPU Scheduling Tanenbaum 2.5, 8.1
SGG chapter 6
Feb 1, Wednesday Synchronization principles Tanenbaum 2.3
SGG 7.1-7.4
Feb 6, Monday High-level synchronization and IPC Tanenbaum 2.4
SGG 7.5-7.10
Feb 8, Wednesday Deadlocks Tanenbaum chapter 3
SGG chapter 8
Feb 13, Monday Introduction to Nachos/Xen assignments Introduction to Nachos
Introduction to Xen
Feb 15, Wednesday Basic memory management Tanenbaum 4.1-4.3
SGG 9.1-9.4
Feb 20, Monday Paging and segmentation Tanenbaum 4.3,4.8
SGG 9.4-9.6
Feb 22, Wednesday Virtual memory Tanenbaum 4.4-4.7
SGG chapter 10
Feb 27, Monday More on virtual memory Tanenbaum 4.4-4.7
SGG 10
Mar 1, Wednesday Midterm
Mar 6, Monday I/O systems Tanenbaum 5.1-5.3
SGG chapter 13
Mar 8, Wednesday Storage devices Tanenbaum 5.4-5.9
SGG chapter 14
Anticipatory scheduling
Mar 13, Monday Spring break
Mar 15, Wednesday Spring break
Mar 20, Monday File system abstractions Tanenbaum 6.1-6.2
SGG chapter 11
Mar 22, Wednesday Guest lecture by Prof. Michael L. Scott
Mar 27, Monday File system implementations Tanenbaum 6.3-6.4
SGG chapter 12
Mar 29, Wednesday Security Tanenbaum 9.1-9.5
SGG chapter 19
Apr 3, Monday Protection Tanenbaum 9.6-9.7
SGG chapter 18
Apr 5, Wednesday Concurrent online servers
Apr 10, Monday More on server system support
Apr 12, Wednesday Micro-kernel OS Tanenbaum 1.7
SGG appendix B
Apr 17, Monday Extensible/configurable OS
Apr 19, Wednesday Multiprocessor OS Tanenbaum 8.1
Apr 24, Monday The Linux kernel Tanenbaum chapter 10
SGG chapter 20
Apr 26, Wednesday The Windows 2000 Tanenbaum chapter 11
SGG chapters 21
May 1, Monday My ongoing research
May 3, Wednesday Course review