Operating Systems

Lecturer:

Pavel Tvrdík (guarantor)

Tutor:

Michal Štepanovský

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Systems

Synopsis:

Students understand the classical theory of operating systems (OS) in addition to the knowledge gained in the BI-UOS module. They get a solid knowledge of OS kernels, processes and threads implementations. They understand the problems of race conditions and principles and algorithms for critical sections, thread scheduling, resource allocation, deadlocks. They understand the techniques of managing virtual memory, principles and architectures of disks and disk arrays, file systems and peripheral devices. They gain basic knowledge necessary for developing system applications or for system administration. They are able to design and implement simple multithreaded applications.

Requirements:

Common user-level knowledge of operating systems. Basic knowledge of C/C++ programming.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction. OS architecture and functions. OS kernel.

2. Processes and threads, management and implementation.

3. Race conditions. Critical section. Synchronization primitives.

4. Classical process synchronization problems and their solutions.

5. Thread scheduling.

6. Resource allocation. Deadlock.

7. Memory allocation - basic methods.

8. Virtual memory. Paging. Segmentation.

9. Page replacement algorithms.

10. Physical disks and RAID.

11. File systems ? properties.

12. File systems ? implementation, examples (fat, ntfs, ufs, zfs).

13. I/O, peripheral devices. Communication of the OS with a peripheral device.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction. Project assignment.

2. System calls.

3. Threads.

4. Thread synchronization.

5. [2] Consultation.

6. Presentation of the first project (threads).

7. Processes.

8. Process synchronization.

9. [2] Consultation.

10. Presentation of the second project (processes).

Study Objective:

Students gain basic knowledge necessary for developing system applications or for system administration. After completing the course, students will be able to design and implement simple multithreaded applications.

Study materials:

1. Tanenbaum, A. S. ''Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition)''. Prentice Hall, 2001. ISBN 0130313580.

2. Stallings, W. ''Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (5th Edition)''. Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN 0131479547.

3. Silberschatz, A., Galvin, P. B., Gagne, G. ''Operating System Concepts (7th Edition)''. Wiley, 2004. ISBN 0471694665.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2018/2019:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2018/2019:

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The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Bc Branch Security and Information Technology, Presented in English, Version 2015, 16, 17 and 18 (compulsory course in the program)
• Bc. Branch WSI, Specialization Software Engineering, Presented in English, Version 2015, 16, 17, 18 (compulsory course in the program)
• Bc. Branch Computer Science, Presented in English, Version 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 (compulsory course in the program)