Instructor: Bing Wang
Office: ITE 367
Office Hours:  M 10-11, W 2-3
Phone: 860-486-0582
e-mail: bing@engr.uconn.edu

Content: This course provides an introduction to operating system design and implementation. The operating system provides a well-known, convenient, and efficient interface between user programs and the bare hardware of the computer on which they run. The operating system is responsible for allowing resources (e.g., disks, networks, and processors) to be shared, providing common services needed by many different programs (e.g., file service, the ability to start or stop processes, and access to the printer), and protecting individual programs from one another.

The course will start with a brief historical perspective of the evolution of operating systems over the last fifty years, and then cover the major components of most operating systems. This discussion will cover the tradeoffs that can be made between performance and functionality during the design and implementation of an operating system. Particular emphasis will be given to three major OS subsystems: process management (processes, threads, CPU scheduling, synchronization, and deadlock), memory management (segmentation, paging, swapping), file systems, protection and security, and operating system support for distributed systems

This course is intended for undergraduate Computer Science and Computer Engineering majors and for MS students.  

Teaching assistants:  Greg Johnson, gjohnson@engr.uconn.edu  Office hour: Tu 6-7pm

Prerequisites:

• A rudimentary understanding of algorithms and data structure is required.. A previous course in computer architecture is required.
• You must be able to program in C/C++.

• Text: Operating Systems Concepts, seventh edition, Silberchatz, Galvin, and Gagne, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 
  

• Assigned readings from the text and the WWW.
• Class Notes: Class notes (highly recommended) are posted on the class WWW site (see "On-line materials" below).
• On-line materials. A WWW site is maintained for the course.

Web site: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~bing/cse258.
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Coursework