CS 4410 - Operating Systems

(SMR-AS)

Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Prerequisite: CS 3410 or CS 3420. Co-meets with CS 5410.

Fall: L. Alvisi; Spring: R. VanRenesse.

Introduction to the design of systems programs, with emphasis on multiprogrammed operating systems. Topics include concurrency, synchronization, deadlocks, memory management, protection, input-output methods, networking, file systems and security. The impact of network and distributed computing environments on operating systems is also discussed.