Advanced Operating Systems

Fall 2005
CS 6/73201

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker

walker@cs.kent.edu
MSB 233a, (330) 672-9055
Office hours = most afternoons 2-3pm, or by appt.

Teaching Assistant:

none

Syllabus

Syllabus (8/29/05)

Miscellaneous

My previous AOS course web pages:
Spring 2003 Spring 2001 Spring 2000
Spring 1999 Spring 1998 Spring 1997
Prof. Nesterenko's previous AOS course web pages:
Fall 2003 Fall 2002 Spring 2002 Fall 2001 Fall 2000 Fall 1999

Exams

10/3/05 Exam 1 -- Lectures 01-07 & textbook
Exam Solution (mean = 85.0, stdev = 6.1)
11/7/05 Exam 2 -- Lectures 08-13 & textbook
Exam Solution (mean = 87.8, stdev = 5.8)
12/12/05 Final Exam -- Lectures 14-20 & textbook
Exam Solution (mean = 82.2, stdev = 10.4, out of 100)

Homework Assignments

Homework 1 -- Assignment (due on 9/26/05) Solution
Homework 2 -- Assignment (due on 10/31/05) Solution
Homework 3 -- Assignment (due on 12/7/05) Solution

Lecture Notes

8/29/05 Lecture 01 -- Introduction
8/31/05 Lecture 02 -- Distributed Systems

9/5/05 Class Cancelled (Labor Day)
9/7/05 Lecture 03 -- Network Structures

9/12/05 Lecture 04 -- Network Communications
9/14/05 Lecture 05 -- Physical Clocks

9/19/05 Class Cancelled
9/21/05 Class Cancelled

9/26/05 Lecture 06 -- Logical Clocks
9/28/05 Lecture 07 -- Election & Agreement

10/3/05 Exam 1
10/5/05 Lecture 08 -- Dist. Mut. Exclusion Part I

10/10/05 Lecture 09 -- Dist. Mut. Exclusion Part II
10/12/05 Class Cancelled (Yom Kippur)

10/17/05 Lecture 10 -- Dist. Deadlock Part I
10/19/05 Lecture 11 -- Dist. Deadlock Part II

10/24/05 Lecture 12 -- Atomic Transactions
10/26/05 CS Colloquium on Wireless Networked Sensors
10/26/05 Lecture 13 -- Concurrency Control

Lecture Notes (cont.)

10/31/05 Lecture 14 -- Dist. File Systems Part I
11/2/05 Lecture 15 -- Dist. File Systems Part II

11/7/05 Exam 2
11/9/05 Class Cancelled (attend CS Colloquium on 10/26)

11/14/05 Lecture 16 -- Process Migration
11/16/05 Lecture 17 -- Load Distribution
11/18/05 CS Colloquium on Resource Allocation
(attend if possible)

11/21/05 Lecture 18 -- Dist. Shared Memory
11/23/05 Class Cancelled (Thanksgiving)

11/28/05 Lecture 19 -- Cryptography
-- guest lecture by Prof. Rothstein --
11/30/05 Lecture 20 -- Real-Time Systems
-- guest lecture by Prof. Baker --

12/5/05 Lecture 21 -- ATC Real-Time Systems
-- guest lecture by Prof. Baker --
12/7/05 Class Cancelled (attend CS Colloquium today)
12/7/05 CS Colloquium on Next Generation Info Systems