Fall 2014 :: CSE 506 - Operating Systems :: Section 2 (PhD)

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Due Dates

Date	What
09/08	Lab 1 due (11:59 pm)
09/17	Lab 2 due (11:59 pm)
09/22	Lab 3a due (Advisory deadline)
09/26	Lab 3 due (11:59 pm)
10/03	Lab 4a due (Advisory deadline)
10/10	Lab 4b due (Advisory deadline)
10/17	Lab 4 due (11:59 pm)
10/23	Final project proposal due (11:59 pm)
11/07	Lab 5 due (11:59 pm)
12/05	Final project code due (11:59 pm)

Lecture Schedule

Date	What	Notes
08/26	Introduction	Lab 1 assigned
08/28	x86 Virtual Memory	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapter 3 Vx32: Lightweight, User-level Sandboxing on the x86
09/02	No Class (School Holiday)
09/04	Interrupts and System Calls	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapter 4
09/09
09/11	Process Address Space and Binary Formats	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapter 9
09/16	PhD Section Overview Process Address Space and Binary Formats, Part 2	Optional reading: The ELF Object File Format: Introduction The ELF Object File Format by Dissection Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)
09/18	Memory Allocation	Required reading: Hoard: A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications Optional reading: Scalable memory allocation using jemalloc
09/23	Page Frame Management and Reclamation	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Section 8.1 and Chapter 17
09/25	CPU Scheduling	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapter 7
09/30
10/02	Inter-Process Communication (IPC)	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapters 11 and 19 Delivering Signals for Fun and Profit
10/07	Midterm Exam (8:30-9:50am, Humanities 1006)
10/09	Inter-Process Communication (IPC)
10/14	Threading	Required reading: The Native POSIX Thread Library for Linux Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level Management of Parallelism Optional reading: Fuss, Futexes and Furwocks: Fast Userlevel Locking in Linux
10/16	Synchronization	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapter 5
10/21
10/23	VFS	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapters 12 and 16
10/28
10/30	Page Cache	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapter 15
11/04	ext(2/3/4) File Systems	Required reading: EXT3, Journaling Filesystem The new ext4 filesystem: current status and future plans
11/06	Linux Networking	Optional reading: Understanding Linux Network Internals, Chapters 10 and 13 Linux Device Drivers, Chapter 17 Eliminating receive livelock in an interrupt-driven kernel
11/11
11/13	NFS	Required reading: Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem
11/18	Alternative OS Structures: Virtual Machines	Presenters: Heyi Li and Zhen Cao Required reading: When Virtual Is Better than Real Xen and the Art of Virtualization Optional reading: Scale and Performance in the Denali Isolation Kernel When Virtual is Harder than Real: Security Challenges in Virtual Machine Based Computing Environments
11/20	Programming I/O Devices	Optional reading: Linux Device Drivers, Chapters 9, 12 and 15
11/25	OS Security: Access Control in Traditional Operating Systems	Presenters: Vasudevan Nagendra and Yaohui Chen Required reading: Access Control Lists in Linux Improving the Granularity of Access Control in Windows NT
11/27	No Class (Thanksgiving)
12/02	OS Security: Securing Linux	Presenters: Hyungjoon Koo and Anke Li Optional reading: Operating System Security (accessible from the SBU network), Chapter 9 SELinux: NSA's Open Source Security Enhanced Linux (may require authentication), Chapters 2 and 5
12/04	Disk Scheduling Final Exam Review	Optional reading: Understanding the Linux Kernel, Chapter 14 An Introduction to Disk Drive Modelling
12/09	Final Exam (11:15am-1:45pm, Humanities 2405)