ADV SYSTEM-SOFTWARE
EECS 211, Course Code: 18410
Quarter: Winter Quarter 2009

Course Description

EECS211 Advanced System Software (3) W.
Study of operating systems including interprocess communication, scheduling,
resource management, concurrency, reliability, validation, protection and security,
and distributed computing support.
System software design languages and modeling analysis.

Prerequisite: EECS112 and EECS111; or consent of instructor.
Formerly ECE231.

Course Objectives and Outcomes

• Course Objectives:

  • To clearly understand the concepts that underlie operating systems.
  • To be able to use actual operating systems effectively.
  • To be able to analyze, design and develop essential parts of operating systems.

• Course Outcomes:

  • Students understand advanced concepts used in operating systems.
  • Students are able to use advanced operating system concepts in programming.
  • Students are able to develop essential parts of operating systems.

Course Resources

• Text book:
  

  A. Silberschatz, P. B. Galvin, G. Gagne: Operating System Concepts, 8th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-12872-5

• Course web site
  online at http://eee.uci.edu/09w/18410/

Course Contents

Week	Topic	Reading
1	Introduction, course set up, overview	Ch. 1 - 2
2	Processes, threads, scheduling, synchronization, deadlocks	Ch. 3 - 7
3	Memory management	Ch. 8
4	Virtual memory	Ch. 9
5	File systems, interface, implementation	Ch. 10 - 11
6	I/O systems	Ch. 13
7	Protection	Ch. 14
8	Security, Cryptography	Ch. 15
9	Distributed systems	Ch. 16 - 17
10	Distributed coordination	Ch. 18



• Note that contents are tentative and may change.
• Please see the Schedule page for up-to-date scheduling information.

Course Policies

• Attendance Policy:

  Attendance and active participation is required.

• Assignments:

  Assignments are listed on the Assignments course web page and will be assigned on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
  Submission instructions and due dates will be listed with each assignment.
  The deadline for assignments is hard. Home work turned in after the due date will not be graded and will receive no credit.

• Exams:

  The course includes one prerequisite quiz and one midterm examination, scheduled as listed on the Schedule page.
  Final examinations are administered during examination week at the time announced by the Office of the Registrar.

• Grading Policy:

  The final grade for the course will be calculated as a weighted sum of the points scored in the quiz, the assignments, the midterm, and the final examination, as follows:
  • 10% Prerequisite quiz
  • 30% Assignments
  • 30% Midterm
  • 30% Final examination

• Academic Honesty:

  The complete policy statement on academic honesty is published in the Schedule of Classes.
  Dishonesty will not be tolerated.