EECS 3221: Operating System Fundamentals

This undergraduate course presents a thorough academic investigation into the foundational theories, conceptual models, and methodological frameworks of Operating System Fundamentals. Specifically, students examine this course is intended to teach students the fundamental concepts that underlie operating systems, including multiprogramming, concurrent processes, CPU scheduling, deadlocks, memory management, file systems, protection and security. Many examples from real systems are given to illustrate the application of particular concepts. At the end of this course, a student will know the principles and techniques required for understanding and designing operating systems. Instruction focuses on building core critical thinking, quantitative problem-solving, and disciplinary competencies necessary for upper-level studies and professional applications.

• Process lifecycle, CPU scheduling algorithms, and inter-process communication (IPC) in EECS 3221
• Thread synchronization: race condition mitigation, mutexes, semaphores, and deadlock prevention
• Virtual memory management: multi-level page tables, TLB caching, page replacement, and segmentation
• File system architecture: inode structures, disk scheduling algorithms, and shell scripting in Operating System Fundamentals