Networks and Distributed Systems

Lecture Description

Course Description

Basic concepts of operating systems and system programming. Utility programs, subsystems, multiple-program systems. Processes, interprocess communication, and synchronization. Memory allocation, segmentation, paging. Loading and linking, libraries. Resource allocation, scheduling, performance evaluation. File systems, storage devices, I/O systems. Protection, security, and privacy.

Course Index

1. Introduction, What is an Operating System Anyway???
2. Concurrency: Processes, Threads, and Address Spaces
3. Thread Dispatching
4. Cooperating Threads
5. Synchronization
6. Readers-Writers; Language Support for Synchronization
7. Tips for working in a Project Team/ Cooperating Processes and Deadlock
8. Deadlock (continued) - Thread Scheduling
9. Scheduling (continued) - Protection: Kernel and Address Spaces
10. Address Translation
11. Address Translation 2, Caching and TLBs
12. Caching and TLBs 2, Caching and Demand Paging
13. Page Allocation and Replacement
14. Page Allocation and Replacement 2, Survey of I/O Systems
15. File Systems and Disk Management
16. Queueing Theory, Filesystems
17. Filesystems, Naming, and Directories
18. Networks and Distributed Systems
19. Network Protocols
20. Network Protocols III
21. Network Communication Abstractions/RPC
22. Protection and Security in Distributed Systems II
23. ManyCore OS and Peer-to-Peer Systems