Role

Teaching Assistant

Course

CS 350 (Operating Systems)

Terms(s)

• Fall (Sep. - Dec.) 2021

Language(s)

C

Topics

• Historical overview of operating system development
• Operating system architectures
• Multi-Programming
  • Processes and threads, system calls, context switching
  • Managing processor time
  • Types of scheduling, scheduling algorithms
• Concurrency Principles of concurrency
  • Mutual exclusion and semaphores
  • Deadlock detection and prevention
• Memory Management
  • Simple memory management techniques: partitioning, dynamic loading, simple segmentation
  • Virtual addressing and address translation
  • Virtual memory management: segmentation, paging, caching strategies
  • Load control, swapping, and thrashing
• Device Management
  • Physical structure and properties of devices, device control and interaction, blocking, buffering, disk scheduling, DMA
• File Systems
  • File naming, types and logical organization
  • Space allocation and management
  • File system interfaces
  • Implementation strategies
  • Case studies
• Interprocess Communication (5 hours)
  • Terminology and issues, message passing functionality, pipes, sockets, signals, shared memory, and other communication mechanisms

Duties

• Moderated online discussions on Piazza and answered questions