Tentative Syllabus

Because I teach to the students, and not to the syllabus, these dates and topics are tentative and subject to change without warning. In particular, if I don’t discuss something you’re interested in, ask about it! I may very well add it or modify what I’m covering to include it.

The discussion sections will present additional material and examples. The discussion section topics are tentative and subject to change as we see fit. Regardless of the topic listed, all discussion sections have a few ground rules:

If you don’t understand something in lecture, or are having problems with the assignments, we encourage you to ask about it. The primary goal of a discussion section is to discuss points that are confusing you, and we will clear up any confusion even if some material is not covered.
You are responsible for material covered in discussion section. That material may be on assignments and exams.

#	date	topic	reading and notes
1.	Mar 28	Introduction, history of operating systems	text, §1, 2
2.	Mar 30	System calls and how they work	text, §5, 39
3.	Apr 1	Processes and process management	text, §3–6
4.	Apr 4	CPU and process scheduling	text, §6–7
5.	Apr 6	CPU and process scheduling	text, §8–9
6.	Apr 8	Concurrency and the critical section problem	text, §25, 27
7.	Apr 11	Concurrency solutions, semaphores	text, §28, 29, 31
8.	Apr 13	Higher-level language constructs	text, §30, 33; homework 1 due
9.	Apr 15	Monitors, eventcounters, IPC	text, §32
10.	Apr 18	Concurrency bugs, livelock, deadlock	text, §26; lab exercise 1 due
11.	Apr 20	Memory and memory management	text, §12–14<>/td>
12.	Apr 22	Memory and memory management	text, §12–15
13.	Apr 25	Review for midterm
Exam.	Apr 27	Midterm	lab exercise 1 due
15.	Apr 29	Segmentation and Paging	text, §16, 18
16.	May 2	Page replacement algorithms	text, §18, 19
17.	May 4	Page, frame replacement algorithms	text, §20
18.	May 6	Guest lecture by Prof. S. Felix Wu
19.	May 9	Working set; I/O subsystem	text: §20, 36–37
20.	May 11	Device I/O	text, §36–37; homework 2 due
21.	May 13	Devices and I/O	text, §36–37
22.	May 16	Secondary storage, files and directories	text, §37, 39
23.	May 18	Access control, disk block allocation	text, §37, 49
24.	May 20	Networking	text, §49
25.	May 23	Security, principles, authentication	text, §54–55
26.	May 25	Authentication, network security, identities	text, §54–55; homework 3 due
27.	May 27	Network security, cryptography, malware	text, §54, 55
Skip.	May 30	Memorial Day (University holiday)
28.	Jun 1	Review for final	text, §54, 55
Skip	Jun 2		homework 4, lab exercise 2 due
Exam.	Jun 6	Final exam	Time: 3:30pm–5:30pm

Matt Bishop
Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences
Phone: +1 (530) 752-8060
Email: mabishop@ucdavis.edu

ECS 150, Operating Systems
Version of April 11, 2022 at 1:17PM

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