ECE 578: Advanced Operating Systems
Fall, 1996

Professor

Yi Lu (yilu@umich.edu)

Office: 215D ELB, 313-593-5028

Class hours: Thursday 6:00 pm - 9:00pm

Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm - 4:30pm

I encourage you to communicate with me on the e-mail.

Textbook

Operating System Concepts, Abraham Silberschatz, James L. Peterson, Peter B. Galvin, 4rd ed., Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1994

Advanced Operating Systems,

Grading
Category Comments  Dates Points 
Homework three assignments  240
Test 1 2.0 hours 10/17/96, 

6:00-8:00 

150
Test 2 2.0 hours 12/17/96 

4:30-6:30pm 

150
Total points 540
Topics:

1. Introduction to Computer operating systems

2. Process management and concurrency problems

3. Deadlock problem

4. Memory management and virtual memory, device management and I/O techniques

5. Distributed Operating Systems