CSE 421/521
Introduction to Operating Systems
Fall 2012
Instructor:
Prof.
Tevfik Kosar
338J
Davis Hall, 645-2323
tkosar@buffalo.edu
Office
hours: Wed 10:00am-11:00am, Thu 11:00am - noon
Course
Description:
CSE 421/521 is an introductory course on the design and
implementation of operating systems. It will focus on different OS design
techniques, process management, processor scheduling, concurrent programming,
deadlocks and synchronization, memory management, file management and I/O
systems, disk scheduling, protection and security, and distributed systems. The
course will include hands-on programming projects on different OS components.
(Prerequisites of
this course: CSE 305, CSE 321, or permission of the instructor.)
Course
Logistics:
Lecture time & location : Tue & Thu, 9:30am-10:50am
(Davis 101)
Recitation sessions : Tue
11:00am-11:50am (Capen 260), Wed 10:00am-10:50am (Obrian 112)
Teaching assistants :
Sonali Batra, Ying Yang,
Weida Zhong
Textbook: (Required)
v
Operating
Systems Concepts
(8th Update Edition),
By A. Silbershatz, P.B. Galvin, and G. Gayne.
Wiley Publishers, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-1181-1273-1
Recommended
Supplementary Text: (Optional)
v The C Programming Language (Second Edition)
By Kernighan and Ritchie. Prentice Hall, Second Edition,
1988, ISBN 0-13-110362-8.
v
The C++ Programming Language (Third
Edition)
By Bjarne
Stroutstrup. Addison-Wesley,
Third Edition, 1997, ISBN 0-201-88954-4
v Advanced Programming in the UNIX
Environment
By Richard Stevens. Addison Wesley Press, 1993,
ISBN 0-201-56317-7.
Grading:
The end-of-semester grades for this course will be composed
of:
v
Pop
Quizzes: 5%
v
Homework:
10%
v
Projects:
30%
v
Midterm:
25%
v
Final:
30%
There will be no formal attendance taken in the class. But,
you are expected to attend the classes and actively contribute via asking
and/or answering questions. There may be pop quizzes at the beginning of some
classes. The questions in the quizzes will come mostly from the material
discussed in the previous lecture(s) or homework assignment(s). There will be
three programming projects, and four homework assignments throughout the
course.
Course
Schedule (Tentative):
This
schedule is tentative and subject to change. Please check this page regularly
for the updates on the schedule; announcements on the projects, homework
assignments and exams; and other news about the course. All lecture slides will
be posted online to the course web page the same day after each class.
Date |
Lect. |
Title |
Notes |
Aug 28 |
1 |
Read Ch.1 |
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Aug 30 |
2 |
Read Ch.2 |
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Sep 4 |
3 |
Read Ch.3 |
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Sep 6 |
4 |
Read Ch.4; HW-1 out |
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Sep 11 |
5 |
Read Ch.5; Recitation-1 |
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Sep 13 |
6 |
HW-1 due |
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Sep 20 |
7 |
Prj-1 out; Recitation-2 |
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Sep 25 |
8 |
Read Ch.6; Recitation-3 |
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Sep 27 |
9 |
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Oct 2 |
10 |
Read Ch.7; HW-2 out;Recitation-4 |
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Oct 4 |
11 |
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Oct 9 |
12 |
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HW-2 due |
Oct 11 |
13 |
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Oct 16 |
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MIDTERM EXAM (Room:
Davis 101) |
@ 9:30am-10:50am |
Oct 18 |
14 |
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Oct 23 |
15 |
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Oct 25 |
16 |
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Oct 30 |
17 |
Project-II Discussion
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Nov 1 |
18 |
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Nov 6 |
19 |
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Nov 8 |
20 |
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Nov 13 |
21 |
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Nov 15 |
22 |
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Nov 20 |
23 |
Project
–III Discussion
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Nov 22 |
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Fall Recess |
Nov 27 |
24 |
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Nov 29 |
25 |
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Dec 4 |
26 |
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Dec 6 |
27 |
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Dec 17 |
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FINAL EXAM
(Room:Knox 104) |
@ 11:45am - 2:45pm |