CS 5523 Operating Systems
Readings - Spring 2001

Abbreviations:
Distibuted Systems: Concepts and Design 3rd Edition by G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore and T. Kindberg (CDK)
Unix Network Programming Vol. I: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI by W. R. Stevens (Stevens I)
Unix Network Programming Vol. II: Interprocess Communications by W. R. Stevens Stevens II)

Readings:

System Models: organization (client-servers, proxies, peer processes, agents), resource management and performance
- Week 1:
  CDK Chapter 1
  CDK Chapter 1 Exercises 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.12
- Week 2:
  CDK Chapter 2
  CDK Chapter 2 Exercises 2.4, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.15
Networking and Internetworking: protocols and routing
- Week 3:
  CDK Chapter 3.1-3.4
  CDK Chapter 3 Exercises 3.1, 3.7, 3.14
  Stevens I Chapters 1 and 2
- Week 4:
  CDK Chapter 4.1-4.2
  Stevens I Chapters 4 and 8
Name Services: DNS, directory and discovery services
- Week 5:
  CDK Chapter 9.1 and 9.2
  Stevens I Chapter 9
  The man page for nslookup
  The man page for resolver
  The man page for nstest
- Week 6:
  CDK Chapter 9.3 and 9.5
  Stevens I Chapter 9
  CDK Chapter 9 Exercises 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.8, 9.9, 9.12 and 9.16
Operating System Support: Basic OS services, protection, processes and threads, synchronization
- Week 7:
  CDK Chapter 6.1-6.4 and 6.6
- Week 8:
  Stevens I Chapter 23
  CDK Chapter 6 Exercises 6.4, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.14, 6.23, 6.24, and 6.25.
Distributed Objects: Remote invocation and objects, RPC, events and notifications
- Week 9:
  CDK Chapter 5.1, 5.2 and 5.5
  Simple Hello Example
- Week 10:
  CDK Chapter 4.3 and 4.4
  CDK Chapter 4 Exercises 4.3, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12
  CDK Chapter 5.3
- Week 11:
  CDK Chapter 5.4
  CDK Chapter 5 Exercises 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, and 5.12
  CDK Chapter 17
Distributed File Systems: requirements for distributed file systems, NFS, Andrew
- Week 12:
  CDK Chapter 8.1-8.5
  CDK Chapter 8 Exercises 8.1, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16
- Week 13:
  Feasibility of a Serverless Distributed File System Deployed on an Existing Set of Desktop PCSs
  W. J. Bolosky, J. R. Douceur, D. Ely and M. THeimer
  ACM Sigmetrics 2000
  http://www.research.microsoft.com/sn/Farsite/Sigmetrics2000.pdf
Security: cryptographic algorithms, public key encryption and digital signatures, hybrid protocols
- Week 14:
  CDK Chapter 7

Last revision: May 1, 2001 at 8:50am

CS 5523 Operating Systems Readings - Spring 2001

CS 5523 Operating Systems
Readings - Spring 2001