CS 3840 - Operating Systems

4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 4 credits

Course Description
This course introduces students to the design and implementation of modern operating systems. Topics covered include the history of operating systems, process synchronization and scheduling, deadlock detection and avoidance, memory management, file systems, protection and security, and input/output systems. Students will be exposed to the POSIX interface through lecture and homework assignments. Students will see the construction of a simple operating system executing on a small microprocessor. Students will construct simple shell scripts to run in a UNIX shell. (prereq: (CS 2711 or CE 1921) and (CS 2040 or CS 3210))

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Identify the components of operating system process management
Recognize issues related to concurrent processes and synchronization techniques
Discuss and illustrate several approaches to operating system memory management
Analyze the usage of memory management systems experimentally
Discuss and illustrate commonly used scheduling algorithms
Describe input/output handling in operating systems
Illustrate file system interfaces and implementation
Apply POSIX system calls
Construct and execute simple shell scripts

Prerequisites by Topic

C/C++ programming experience (including memory management, C/C++ compilation model, structures/unions)
RISC Assembly Language programming

Course Topics

Course introduction
Operating systems overview
Operating systems architecture and design
Processes
Context switching
Interprocess communication
Threads
Scheduling
Synchronization
Deadlocks
Swapping
Virtual memory
Page replacement algorithms and performance
File systems introduction
Access control
File allocation schemes
DMA
Security
Shell scripting
Developing OS topics

Coordinator
Dr. Walter Schilling

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CS 3840 - Operating Systems