Instructor: Feng Qin Office: 795 Dreese Lab Office hours: 2-3 pm Tuesdays and by appointment Email: qin AT cse.ohio-state.edu Phone: (614) 247-4533

Grader: Haicheng Chen Office: BO 109 Email: chen.4800 AT osu.edu Office hours: TBA

	Announcements 1. (Aug. 24) Welcome to the class! <more>
	Summary: This course is intended to expose you to a broad topics of advanced operating systems. More specifically, it will cover process synchronization mechanisms, mutual exclusion, foundations of distributed systems, failure recovery, fault tolerance, virtualization, and others.
	Textbook: Distributed Systems (2nd or newer edition), by Tanenbaum and van Steen (primary textbook) Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems, by Singhal and Shivratri (reference book)

	Prerequisite: CSE5431 or equivalent.
	Grading: (Note: Printed version is preferred. Otherwise, make sure your handwritting is readable) Homework:     20% Programming: 10% Exam I:         24% Exam II:        36% Class Discussion: 3% Better of Exam I and II: 10%
	Late Policy: The late submission will have 2% penalty for each hour after the due time.
	Re-grading Policy: After the grades for a homework assignment or an exam are available, students have one week to request the re-grading for that homework/exam. Once the one week period passes, no re-grading requests for that homework/exam will be granted.
	Exams: a double-sided page (8.5"X11") of cheat sheet is allowed Exam I:  12:45 - 2:05 pm Wednesday, Oct. 12, in classroom Exam II: TBD
	Academic Integrity: Rules by Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) will be enforced. You may find the ten suggestions from OAA useful.
	Tentative Schedule (Slides will be on Carmen)   Date Topics Readings HW Aug. 24 Intro Tanenbaum Ch.1 HW1 Aug. 26 Process Synchronization (I) Singhal Ch. 2.1-2.4 Aug. 31 Process Synchronization (II) Singhal Ch. 2.5 Sep. 02 Process Synchronization (III) Singhal Ch. 2.6.1 Sep. 07 Inter-Process Communication (I) Tanenbaum Ch.4.1-4.3 Sep. 09 Inter-Process Communication (II) Tanenbaum Ch.6.1-6.2 Sep. 14 Distributed Mutual Exclusion (I) Tanenbaum Ch.6.3, Singhal Ch.6.1-6.4,6.6 HW1 Due Sep. 16 Distributed Mutual Exclusion (II) Tanenbaum Ch.6.5, Singhal Ch.6.7-6.8 HW2 Sep. 21 Database Concurrency Control (I) Singhal Ch.19.1-19.5 Sep. 23 Database Concurrency Control (II) Singhal Ch.20.1-20.4 Sep. 28 Database Concurrency Control (III) Sep. 30 Deadlocks (I) Singhal Ch.3.1-3.6 Oct. 05 Deadlocks (II) Singhal Ch.3.7-3.10   Oct. 07 HW Review Oct. 12 Exam I   Oct. 14 (No class due to Autumn Break) Oct. 19 Fault Tolerance (I) Oct. 21 Fault Tolerance (II)   Oct. 26 - Dec. 07 More topics on Fault Tolerance, Storage Systems, Coherence in Distributed Systems, Data Race Detection Methods, Virtualization Technology, and others will be scheduled.