CSS 430: Operating Systems
Fall 2010

T/Th 5:45-7:45pm
Room: UW2-141
Prof. Kelvin Sung


Professor:

Kelvin Sung <ksung@u.washington.edu>, room UW1-339, phone 352-5420, office hours: Thursday 1:00-3:00 pm (or by appointment).

Course Description:

This course introduces the logical design of operating systems, especially focusing on the design in Java. Topics covered include processes, threads, CPU scheduling, synchronization, deadlocks, memory management, virtual memory, file systems, I/O systems, protection, and security used in the popular desktop and real-time operating systems.

Prerequisites:

CSS343.

Work Load and Grading:

Course Work

Percentage

Assignment 1

8%

Assignment 2

8%

Assignment 3

8%

Final Project

14%

Class Participation  

2%

Weekly Quiz

10% (Weekly on the Web)

Midterm Exam

25%

Final Exam

25%

Textbooks:

  1. Operating Systems Concepts (released: 2008) or Operating System Concepts with JAVA, Eighth edition, Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Galvin, and Greg Gagne, Addison-Wesley, 2009.
  2. A Java book of your choice.

Some Java Books:

References:

Policies:

All programs except the final project are to be done independently. Any collaboration of work will result in severe penalty. You may discuss the problem statement and any clarification with each other, but any actual work to be turned in, must be done without collaboration.

The final project may be done by a team of two, (or three students if you cannot find a single partner), in which case each student must achieve an equally amount of work. (If you work with other two students, you must explain the reasons in your report. Otherwise you will receive only 2/3 of the full score.) For the detailed instructions, see the project assignment sheet.

Any homework is due at the beginning of class for both its hardcopy and softcopy on the due date. Both copies must be submitted. The submission may be postponed only in emergencies such as accidents, sickness, sudden business trips, and family emergencies, in which case you may turn in your homework late with a written proof. No make-up exams will be given except under exceptional circumstances. Barring emergencies, I must be informed before the exam.

To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services (DSS) in Bothell Library Annex Building, Room 106, (email: dss@uwb.edu, TDD: 425-352-5303, and FAX: 425-352-5455). If you have a documented disability on file with the DSS office, please have your DSS counselor contact me and we can discuss accommodations.

Course Goals:

The overall goal of CSS 430 is to learn fundamental concepts that are used in and applicable to a variety of operating systems. The course consists of three major concepts: (1) process management that schedules, executes, synchronizes with events, and terminates your application programs, (2) memory management that loads your programs in memory and allocates/de-allocates memory space they requested dynamically, and (3) file system that provides the mechanism for on-line storage of and access to both data and programs residing on the disks. The course also covers protection, (and security if time is allowed) which are essential to have the modern operating systems work in the Internet computing world. Through the course, we will use Java to illustrate many operating-system concepts. Using Java, you will implement each concept of process management, memory management, and file system. As with most technical courses, besides ability and motivation, it takes time to learn and master the subject. Expect to spend an additional 10 to 15 hours a week outside of class time on the average.

Assignments:

Topics covered and tentative 430 spring schedule:

Note that this is an approximate ordering of topics. Chapters will take about the allotted time and not all sections in all chapters are covered.

Week

Date

Topics

Chapters

Assignment

 1

Sep 30

Introduction

1

Program 1 assigned

2

Oct 5

OS Structures

2

 

 

Oct 7

Process Management

3

 

3

Oct 12

Threads

4

 

 

Oct 14

   

Program 1 due
Program 2 assigned

4

Oct 19

CPU Scheduling

5

 

 

Oct 21

 

 

 

5

Oct 26

Process Synchronization 

 

 

Oct 28

Catch up

 

Program 2 due
Program 3 assigned

6

Nov 2

Deadlocks

7

 

 

Nov 4

Midterm exam in class

Chap: 1-6

 

7

Nov 9

File-System Interface 10

 

 

Nov 11

 Veterans Day

Holiday: no class

 

 8

Nov 16

   

 

 

Nov 18

File-System Implementation

11

Program 3 due

Project assigned

9

Nov 23

Final Project Explanation

 

 

 

Nov 25

 Thanksgiving

Holiday: no class

 

10

Nov 30

 Main Memory

 8

 

 

Dec 2

   

 

11

Dec 7

Virtual Memory

9

 

 

Dec 9

Review + Catch up

 

Final Project Due

12

Dec 14

Final exam in class

Chap: 8 – 11

 

 

Acknowledgment

The materials (including lecture notes and assignments) used in this course are based on the contents developed by Professor Munehiro Fukuda.