Syllabus CSE8343Fall-2005Mohamed Khalil, [email protected] Building good research skills in the area of operating systems.- Building presentation skills.- Meeting deadlines.- Focusing on basic programming skills.- Achieving goals with minimal supervision.- Class will be research oriented class where the students will havea chance to spend around %40 of the class time discussing theirresearch topics with the instructor and other students.Topics To Be Covered- How to apply the concepts learned in previous courses in the implementation of modern operating systems such as UNIX.o Distributed Network Management.o Distributed System Security.o Distributed System Inter-process communication.o Distributed System Memory and buffer management.o Distributed System File system architecture.o Distributed System Process management.o Introduction to queuing theory.- Operating System extensions for mobility (e.g. Mobile IP).o The concept of Home Agent.o The concept of foreign agent.o The concept of mobile nodes.o Registration mechanism for Ipv4/Ipv6.Papers Presentation- Distributed Architectures.- Real time operating systems (e.g. VxWorks).- Distributed File Systems.- Synchronization tools for Distributed operating system.- Process Allocation in the distributed system environment.- Operating System Security.- System performance.Survey Papers- Modern operating systems.covers the:- Process architecture and management.- Memory management- File System architecture and management- Inter-process communicationFor any one of the modern operating systems such as SOLARIS, Windows NT, 2000, UNIX, or VxWorks etc.- Operating System and Network securityCovers the security mechanism such as IPSec, IKE.- Multi-processor environment: How operating systems such as WindowsNT, Unix, Solaris support multiprocessors. We should cover processmanagement and distribution, inter-processor communication, faultrecovery etc.- Real Time Operating System: what are the unique features for RealTime operating systems (e.g. VxWorks). What is the differentbetween real time and non-real time operating systems.Grades70%-79% C80%-89% B90 and UP A1- 20% for survey paper. 2- 40% for two topic research presentations (each is 20%). 3- 40% for final exam.References "Operating Systems", 4th edition, by William Stallings Pub: Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-03199-6, 2001.Disability Accommodations: If you need academic accommodations for adisability, you must first contact Ms. Rebecca Marin, Coordinator,Services for Students with Disabilities (214-768-4563) to verify thedisability and establish eligibility for accommodations. Then you shouldschedule an appointment with the professor to make appropriatearrangements.Religious Observance: Religiously observant students wishing to beAbsent on holidays that require missing class should notify theirprofessors in writing at the beginning of the semester, and shoulddiscuss with them, in advance, acceptable ways Of making up any workmissed because of the absence. (See University Policy No. 1.9.)Excused Absences for University Extracurricular Activities: Studentsparticipating in an officially sanctioned, scheduled Universityextracurricular activity will be given the opportunity to make up classassignments or other graded assignments missed as a result of theirparticipation. It is the responsibility of the student to makearrangements with the instructor prior to any missed scheduled examination or othermissed assignment for making up the work. (University Undergraduate CatalogueAll students registered with CSE8343 should be include in the student lists given to theinstructor not later than the first lecture of the course. It is the responsibility of theregistered students to let the instructor of their enrolments by email etc. Any student, whois not included in the students list of the class by the first class period, might not beinclude in the working policy and plan discussed at this class; a separate arrangementshould be discussed between the instructor and the