SYLLABUS

COURSE TITLE:  Operating System Principles (COP5615)
PREREQUISITES: Undergraduate operating course (COP4600) and some  
               working experience in a modern operating system,
               preferably UNIX.

CLASS ROOM:  NEB 201 FEEDS Studio 
CLASS HOURS: 4th (10:40am - 11:30am) period, Tuesday
             4th (10:40am - 11:30pm) and 5th (11:45am - 12:35pm), Thursday 

PROFESSOR: Randy Chow, chow@cis.ufl.edu 
OFFICE: CSE 348, (352) 392-1487
OFFICE HOURS: 10:00am - 12:00pm, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or by appointment

TA: CSE 309, 392-7053
    Oguz Kaan Onbilger, onbilger@cise.ufl.edu, 1-3pm Monday and Friday, 1-2pm Wednesday  
    Richard Bean, rbean@cise.ufl.edu, 2-4pm Tuesday, 2-5pm Thursday 

OBJECTIVES:  Study of the design and implementation issues for modern
             operating systems.
             We will start with a review of the traditional centralized
             operating systems.  Then we will focus on issues that are
             critical to the applications of distributed systems and
             computer networks.  Topics will include interprocess
             communication, distributed synchronization, distributed
             processing, sharing and replication of data and files.

TEXTBOOK:    Distributed Operating Systems and Algorithms
             by R. Chow and T. Johnson, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1997.

OUTLINE:   - Chapter 1: Background Review
               virtual machine, virtual I/O, virtual memory,
               synchronization, communication, scheduling,
               file systems
           - Chapter 2: Network and Distributed Operating Systems
               system and network architectures, transparency and
               service concepts
           - Chapter 3: Concurrent Processing and Programming Languages
               threads, client/server model, message passing
               concurrent programming languages 
           - Chapter 4: Communication and Distributed Coordination
               group communication, remote procedure calls, time service, 
               name and directory services, distributed synchronization
           - Chapter 5: Distributed Processing
               multiprocessor scheduling, load sharing and balancing,
               remote execution and process migration
           - Chapter 6: Distributed File Systems
               sharing and replication, concurrency control,
               replication management
           - Chapter 7: Distributed Shared Memory
               non-uniform memory access architecture, coherency and 
               consistency models
           - Chapter 8: Computer Security
               cryptography, distributed authentication and authorization
           - Distributed Algorithms and Case Study

GRADING:     3 homeworks - 15%
             4 programming assignments - 20%
             midterm exam 1 - 15%
             midterm exam 2 - 20%
             final exam - 30%