M030/GZ03: Calendar

Detailed Class Calendar

Below follows a day-by-day calendar for the class, including reading assignments, lecture topics, and courseworks. Lecture notes will be posted immediately after each lecture.

Class meetings consist largely of discussions of research papers. They are designed under the assumption that students have already read the assigned papers. If you do not read the papers that appear on a day of the calendar before that day's lecture, you are likely to have difficulty following the lecture and discussion.

N.B. that all assigned readings are examinable.

Monday	Wednesday	Friday
3rd Oct Course Introduction; OS Concepts Lecture Notes: Class Intro Lecture Notes: OS Intro	5th Oct Design: Worse Is Better; Concurrent I/O Reading: Worse Is Better Lecture Notes: I/O Concurrency	7th Oct
10th Oct NFS Reading: NFS Case Study (accessible only through UCL IS account) Reading: Design and Implementation of the Sun Network Filesystem Lecture Notes: NFS	12th Oct RPC and Transparency; Programming Coursework Background Coursework Background Reading: Mark Handley's Intro to C for Java Programmers Coursework 1 Out: Programming a Distributed Tickertape due 9:05 AM, 2nd November 2011 Lecture Notes: RPC and Transparency	14th Oct
17th Oct Ivy: Distributed Shared Memory Reading: Ivy Lecture Notes: Ivy and DSM	19th Oct Two-Phase Commit Lecture Notes: Two-Phase Commit	21st Oct
24th Oct No lecture today! (Hacking day; work on Coursework 1)	26th Oct No lecture today! (Hacking day; work on Coursework 1)	28th Oct Non-standard room and time: MPEB 1.02, 4 PM Paxos Reading: Paxos Lecture Notes: Paxos
31st Oct Bayou: Weak Connectivity and Update Conflicts Reading: Bayou Lecture Notes: Bayou	2nd Nov GFS: The Google File System Reading: GFS Lecture Notes: GFS Coursework 1 Due, 9:05 AM	4th Nov Non-standard room and time: MPEB 1.02, 5 PM Busy Servers: Receive Livelock Reading: Eliminating Receive Livelock Lecture Notes: Eliminating Receive Livelock
7th Nov Reading week; no lecture today!	9th Nov Reading week; no lecture today!	11th Nov
14th Nov No lecture today!	16th Nov No lecture today!	18th Nov Non-standard room and time: MPEB 1.03, 5 PM Introduction to Security; User Authentication Lecture Notes: Introduction to Security
21st Nov Cryptographic Primitives I Lecture Notes: Cryptographic Primitives I	23rd Nov Cryptographic Primitives II Lecture Notes: Cryptographic Primitives II The Kerberos Authentication Service Reading: Kerberos Lecture Notes: Kerberos	25th Nov
28th Nov Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Lecture Notes: SSL/TLS	30th Nov Reasoning Formally about Authentication: TAOS Reading: TAOS Lecture Notes: TAOS Coursework 2 Out: Security Problem Set due in lecture, 5:05 PM, Friday, 16th December 2011	2nd Dec
5th Dec Software Vulnerabilities and Exploits Reading: Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit Reading: Exploiting Format String Vulnerabilities Reading: Once Upon a free() Lecture Notes: Vulnerabilities and Exploits	7th Dec Preventing Exploits Reading: TaintCheck Reading: PaX Overview Reading: ASLR Overview Reading: Limits of Address Space Randomization Lecture Notes: Preventing Exploits	9th Dec Non-standard room and time: MPEB 1.03, 5 PM Containing Buggy Code: Software-based Fault Isolation Reading: SFI Lecture Notes: SFI
12th Dec No lecture today!	14th Dec No lecture today!	16th Dec Non-standard room and time: MPEB 1.03, 5 PM OKWS: Approximating Least Privilege in a Real-World Web Server Reading: OKWS Lecture Notes: OKWS and Least Privilege Coursework 2 Due in lecture: 5:05 PM

3rd Oct

Course Introduction;
OS Concepts

Lecture Notes:
Class Intro

Lecture Notes:
OS Intro

5th Oct

Design: Worse Is Better;
Concurrent I/O

Reading: Worse Is Better

Lecture Notes:
I/O Concurrency

7th Oct

10th Oct

NFS

Reading: NFS Case Study (accessible only through UCL IS account)