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Instructor and Office Hours:

Ajay Kumar (ajaykr at ieee.org)
Office: II 202 
Office hours: Mon, Fri 12:00pm - 1:30pm or by appointment.

Lecture schedule:

First Class for Fall 2006 starts on Jan 3rd in II-325

Tue	8:00 - 8:55	II-325
Wed	8:00 - 8:55	II-325
Fri	8:00 - 8:55	II-325

Course Calendar

Textbooks:

CSL101, CSL102, CSL201, or equivalent.
An undergraduate level understanding of UNIX programming environment and good programming skills in C is required.

Course Objectives:

The course will be directed to a graduate audience interested in understanding the major concepts of operating system design. The detailed operation of various components of operating systems will be presented. The project component of the course is intended to provide hands-on experience to reinforce concepts discussed in this course.

Course Topics:

Click here to view the list of topics that will be covered in this course.

Teaching Materials:

• Lecture Notes #1 --- (Course Outline & Contents)
• Lecture Notes #2 --- (Introduction)
• Lecture Notes #3 --- (Hardware)
• Lecture Notes #4 --- (Structure)
• Lecture Notes #5 --- (Process)
• Lecture Notes #6 --- (IPC)
• Lecture Notes #7 --- (Multithreading)
• Lecture Notes #8 --- (Scheduling)
• Lecture Notes #9 --- (Synchronization)
• Lecture Notes #10 --- (Deadlocks)
• Lecture Notes #11 --- (Memory)
• Lecture Notes #12 --- (Virtual Memory)

Grading:

The tentative weight associated with each grading component is as follows:

• Assignments - 40%
• Quiz - 15%
• Minor I - 15%
• Minor II - 15%
• Major - 15%

The minor I exam will be held on Feb 15, 2007 (Thursday) between 11:00am and 12:00am.

The minor II exam will be held on Mar 23, 2007 (Friday) between 11:00am and 12:00am.
The major exam will be held on May 5, 2007 (Saturday) between 1:00pm and 3:00pm.

Grading Policy:

• Assignments have to be handed in before lecture begins on the due date.
• No make-up for quizzes.
• Make-up for exams will be issued only under exceptional circumstances provided prior arrangements are made with the instructor.
• Instructor reserves the right to deny requests for make-up exams.

Assignments:

Quiz:

• Quiz 1. On 20/01/07 (Results)
• Quiz 2. On 09/02/07  (Results)
• Quiz 3. On 09/03/07 (Results)
• Quiz 4. On 31/03/07 (Results)
• Quiz 5. On 25/04/07 (Results)

Minors:

• Minor I On 15/02/07 (Results)
• Minor II On 23/03/07 (Results)
• Major On 05/05/07 (Results)

Resources:

• I advise you to become comfortable with UNIX within a week of the beginning of this course, i.e. by 12/01/2007. Beginners in UNIX can check out some useful links available on the web; UNIX tutorial for beginners, UNIX Tutorial.
• I also advise you to check out some online tutorials and learn to write UNIX shell scripts. Here are some useful inks for UNIX/Linux shell programming: Shell Programming, Bourne/Bash Shell Programming Tutorial. 

Teaching Assistant:

• Jayant Kumar Gandhi [2005EET2906]
• S. Karthikeyan [2005EET2898]
• Shashwat Agrawal [2005EET2909]