CSE301 Operating System

Course Description

Welcome to CSE301 Operating System! 🦕 This course is one of the core course of computer engineering as operating systems are essential for most computing systems to better utilize hardware resources and run user applications.

Time & Location

• Tuesday 13:30-14:45 @ College of Electronics Information and Applied Science 103

• Thursday 13:30 -14:45 @ College of Electronics Information and Applied Science 103

Objectives

• Learn the basic concepts that underlie modern operating systems

• Understand how operating systems manage hardware and software

• Know how an existing operating system is implemented under the hood

Structure

This course  consists of three parts:

• Lecture will be given by the instructor, covering the core concepts of operating systems in depth. 

• Exercise will be conducted at the end of every part where students will be asked to solve theoretical questions that may be related to the exams. Voluntary (or randomly selected) students will present their solutions to the others during lecture. The exercises will NOT be considered in the final evaluation.

• Assignment will be released at the end of a corresponding part where students will be asked to review a certain part of open-source operating systems and submit a review report of one or two pages. The details of each assignment will be given at the time of its release.

Schedule

Exercise

• Part 1. Overview

  • Date: March 9, 2023

  • Link: Handout

• Part 2. Process Management

  • Date: March 28, 2023

  • Link: Handout

• Part 3. Process Synchronization

  • Date: April 11, 2023

  • Link: Handout

• Part 4. Memory Management

  • Date: May 4, 2023

  • Link: Handout

• Part 5. Storage Management

  • Link: Handout

• Part 6. File System

  • Date: June 1, 2023

  • Link: Handout

Assignment

• Assignment 1. System Call

  • Deadline: March 30, 2023 April 2, 2023

  • Link: Handout

• Assignment 2. Process Scheduling

  • Deadline: May 7, 2023

  • Link: Handout

• Assignment 3. Page Fault Handling

  • Deadline: May 28, 2023

  • Link: Handout

• Assignment 4. Virtual File System

  • Deadline: June 20, 2023

  • Link: Handout

Evaluation

The grade will be given according to the following grading percentages.

• Midterm Exam 30%

  • Date: April 25, 2023 13:30 - 14:45

  • Format: Written exam, closed book

  • Coverage: Chapter 1. Introduction - Chapter 8. Deadlocks

• Final Exam 40%

  • Date: June 15, 2023 13:30 - 14:45

  • Format: Written exam, closed book

  • Coverage: Chapter 9. Main Memory - Chapter 15. File-System Internals

• Assignment 20%

• Attendance 10%

Literature

• Avi Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne: Operating System Concepts. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021.