Course Lecture Plan


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Date Lecture Lecture Topic (Tentative Schedule)
Notes Reading (8th edition/7th edition)
Assignment

Mo
8/27

1
(Ion)
Introduction, overview [ppt,pdf]
S&G 8th/7th Ch 1


We
8/29
2
(Ion)
Abstractions: Services, Structures, Processes, and Threads [ppt,pdf]

S&G 8th/7th Ch 2-4
Edsger W. Dijkstra, 'The structure of the “THE”-multiprogramming system' Communications of the ACM, Volume 11 ,  Issue 5  (May 1968)



We
9/5
3
(Ion)
Concurrency and Thread Dispatching
[ppt,pdf]
S&G 8th/7th Ch 6
John R. Garman, "The Bug Heard 'round the World," ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol 6 No 5, Oct 1981
Nancy Leveson, "Medical Devices: The Therac-25", Safeware: System Safety and Computers, Adison-Wesley, 1995
 
Mo
9/10
4
(Ion)
Synchronization: Cooperating Threads, Mutual Exclusion [ppt,pdf]


Andrew D. Birrell, "An Introduction to Programming with Threads," DIGITAL SRC Research Report 35, Jan 1989


Tu
9/11

Project 1 starts


We
9/12
5
(Ion)
Semaphores, Condition Variables, Readers/Writers [ppt,pdf]




Mo
9/17
6
(Ion)
Readers/Writers Problem, Software Engineering: Working in Teams
[ppt,pdf] [Quiz1]
Waterfall Model
Software Processes at NASA
Rapid Application Development


We
9/19
7
(Ion)
Language Support for Synchronization, Deadlock [ppt,pdf]

S&G 8th/7th:  Ch 1.5(review), 3.3-3.4, 7


Th
9/20

Project 1 initial design due (11:59pm)


Mo
9/24
8
(Ion)
 CPU Scheduling
[ppt,pdf]

S&G 8th/7th: 5.1-5.4

We
9/26
9
(Ion)
Protection: Address Spaces, Address Translation [ppt,pdf]
S&G 8th/7th: 8.1-8.8  
Mo
10/1
10
(Prashanth)
Address Translation, Caching, and TLBs [ppt,pdf]
S&G 8th/7th: Ch 9
H Levy and P. Lipman, "Virtual Memory Management in the VAX/VMS Operating Systems," Computing Surveys, 4(3) September 1972, pp. 149-167


Tu 10/2

Project 1 code due (11:59pm)


We
10/3
11
(Ion)
Page Allocation and Replacement [ppt,pdf]

 Project 1 group evals, final design docs due (11:59pm)
Project 2 out

Mo
10/8
12
(Ion)
Kernel/User, I/O
[ppt,pdf]

S&G 8th/7th:  1.5(review), 3.3-3.4, 13
 
We
10/10
13
(Ion)
Disks/SSDs, Filesystems
[ppt,pdf]

S&G 8th/7th: Chapter 10, 11, 12
M. McKusick, W. Joy, S. Leffler, and R. Fabry:
"A Fast File System for UNIX", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol 2, No 3, August 1984, Pages 181-197


Th 10/11

Project 2 initial design due (11:59pm)


Mo
10/15

MIDTERM 4-5:30 in 120 LATIMER
(exam,solutions)



We
10/17
14
(Ion)
File Systems (cont'd)
[ppt,pdf]


Mo
10/22
15
(Ion)
Key-Value Store, Networking, Protocols [ppt,pdf]

The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
End-to-end Arguments in System Design
S&G 8th/7th: Chapter 16, 17, 18


Tu 10/23

Project 2 code due (11:59pm)


We
10/24
16
(Ion)
Layering, e2e argument [ppt,pdf]


Project 2 group evals, final design docs due (11:59pm)
Project 3 out


Mo
10/29
17
(Ion)
Flow control, reliability, TCP [ppt,pdf,
Quiz2]



We
10/31
18
(Ion)
Transactions [ppt,pdf]


 
Th 11/1

Project 3 initial design due (11:59pm)


Mo
11/5
19
(Ion)
Transactions scheduling, 2PL and 2PC [ppt,pdf]



We
11/7
20
(Anthony Joseph)
Fault-Tolerant Computing
[ppt,pdf]

Jim Gray, "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?", Tandem Tech Report TR-85.7, June 1985.


Mo 11/12

Veterans Holidays (no classes)


Tu 11/13

Project 3 code due (11:59pm)


We
11/14
21
(Ion)
Protection & Security: Authentication, Cryptographic Mechanisms
[ppt,pdf]

S&G 8th/7th: Chapter 14, 15
 Project 3 group evals, final design docs due (11:59pm)
Project 4 out

Mo
11/19
22
(Ion)
Protection & Security (cont'd): Buffer overflow attacks, DoS attacks
[ppt,pdf
Quiz3]



We 11/21

Thanksgiving (no classes)

Mo
11/26
23
(Ali Ghodsi)
Capstone: Cloud Computing [ppt,pdf]
S&G 8th/7th: Section 3.6, Sections 18.1-18.4

Tu 11/27

Project 4 inital design due (11:59pm)

We
11/28
24
(Ion)
Capstone: Peer-to-peer Systems [ppt, pdf]
I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Karger, M. F. Kaashoek, and H. Balakrishnan, "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications"  
We 12/5

Final Exam Review (6:00 PM - Location TBD)

Th 12/6

Project 4 code due (11:59pm)


Fr 12/7

Project 4 group evals, final design docs due (11:59pm)


Th
12/13
Final Exam group 13 (8:00-11:00am,  120 Latimer)