CPS 196 Systems and Networks
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This course is a fast-paced introduction to core topics in operating systems, distributed systems, and networking. It is a prototype first course for a future "breadth-first" restructuring of the undergraduate systems curriculum. The course explores system-level functions, abstractions, and policies for a range of platforms in the network "ecosystem", including classical operating systems, mobile devices, network routers, and server clusters. It focuses on how these systems interact and coordinate over networks, and on the security and reliability of complex networked systems.

• operating system structure
• resource management and security
• threads and concurrency control
• TCP/IP networking and client/server interaction
• Internet architecture: naming, routing
• Internet security and vulnerabilities
• Web servers and Web applications
• distributed coordination with failures
• scalable services and peer-to-peer systems
• network storage, data sharing, and consistency
• virtualization and virtual machines
• software markets: standards, interfaces, interoperability
• service markets: hosting and outsourcing, provisioning, incentives