CS 5523 Operating Systems
Required Readings - Spring 2003

Readings:

• System Models: organization (client-servers, proxies, peer processes, agents), resource management and performance
          CDK Chapter 1
          CDK Chapter 1 Exercises 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.12
          CDK Chapter 2
          CDK Chapter 2 Exercises 2.4, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.15

• Networks and Communication: protocols and routing
          CDK Chapter 3.1-3.4
          CDK Chapter 3 Exercises 3.1, 3.7, 3.14
          CDK Chapter 4
          CDK Chapter 4 Exercises 4.3, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12
          Stevens I Chapters 1 and 2
          Stevens I Chapters 4 and 8
  

• Distributed Objects: Remote invocation and objects, RPC, events and notifications
          CDK Chapter 5
          CDK Chapter 5 Exercises 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, and 5.12
          CDK Chapter 17
          Simple Hello Example - Java RMI
          Simple Hello Example - Corba
          CORBA Shapes Example
  

• Operating System Support: Basic OS services, protection, processes and threads, synchronization
          CDK Chapter 6.1-6.4 and 6.6
          CDK Chapter 6 Exercises 6.4, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.14, 6.23, 6.24, and 6.25.
          Thread Programming by Paul Hyde: Thread Pools
                  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/javaprogramming/threads/chap13.pdf
          High-Performance Java Platform Computing: Multithreaded and Networked Programming
                  by Christopher and Thiruvathukal
                 Chapter 3: Race Conditions and Mutual Exclusion
                  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/performance2/chap3.pdf
                  Chapter 4: Monitors
                  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/performance2/chap4.pdf
          Mars pathfinder

• Security: cryptographic algorithms, public key encryption and digital signatures, hybrid protocols
          CDK Chapter 7
          CDK Chapter 7 Exercises 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.10
          HCII Chapter 9
          Honeynet Project

• Distributed File Systems: requirements for distributed file systems, NFS, Andrew
          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
  

• Name Services: DNS, directory and discovery services
          CDK Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and 9.5
          CDK Chapter 9 Exercises 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.8, 9.9, 9.12 and 9.16
          Stevens I Chapter 9
          The man page for nslookup
          The man page for resolver
          The man page for nstest