Syllabus for UCLA Computer Science 111, Winter 2017.
Operating Systems Principles

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Lectures

The schedule and labs are tentative and most likely will be revised.

date due readings lecture topics
01-07 M 1. Introduction
01-09 W AD §1–§2, §36 • SK §1, §2–§2.3 • Kampe, M. Software interface standards 2. Abstractions and bootstrapping
01-13 Su Lab 0
01-14 M AD §3–§6 • SK §4–§4.1.2, §5–§5.1, §5.3 3. Modularity and virtualization
01-16 W AD §4 • SK §5.5 4. OS organization
01-18 F Lab 1A
01-23 W IPC 5. Orthogonality, processes, and races
01-25 F Lab 1B
01-28 M AD §7, §26–§27 • SK §5.2 (except §5.2.5) • User-mode threads 6. Signals, scheduling, and threads
01-30 W AD §8 • SK §6.3–§6.3.3 • Real-time scheduling 7. Scheduling algorithms
02-01 F Lab 1C
02-04 M SK §9.1.2–§9.1.7 8. Consistency; critical sections
02-06 W midterm, in lecture
02-10 Su Lab 2A
02-11 M AD §28–§33 • SK §5.2.5, §5.6 • Deadlock avoidance 9. Synchronization; deadlock
02-13 W AD §37, Appendix I.6–I.10 • SK §6.1 10. File system performance
02-17 Su Lab 2B
02-20 W AD §39 • SK §2.5 11. File system design
02-24 Su Lab 3A
02-25 M AD §40–§41 • SK §6.3.4 • FAT intro 12. File system implementation
02-27 W AD §42–§45 • SK §8.1.1, §8.2.1, §8.4.1, §9.2, POSIX defect 672 13. File system robustness
03-03 Su Lab 3B
03-04 M AD §13–§17 • SK §5.4, §6.2 intro, §6.2.3–§6.2.9 14. Virtual memory
03-06 W AD §10, §18–§22, §48, Appendix B • SK §4.2, §4.3 15. VM and processes; distributed systems
03-11 M AD §38, §49 • SK §4.5 • Health monitoring 16. Robustness, parallelism, and NFS
03-13 W Lab 4A & Lab 4B SK §11–§11.8Zhang et al 2018 17. Security and privacy
03-15 F report & Lab 4C (Last day for all assignment submissions.)

All assignments are due at 23:55 (i.e., five minutes before midnight) on the date specified. No submissions will be accepted after the last day of instruction (Friday 10th week).

Final exam

The final exam is three hours and will be held at the time scheduled by the registrar.


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