Operating Systems

• explain the role of the operating system and how computer programs are executed.
• define in own words basic operating system concepts such as processes, threads and scheduling.
• identify strategies for communication and synchronisation among different programs.
• program at the operating system interface.
• design and implement parts of operating systems, such as schedulers or device drivers.
• propose and design strategies for implementing operating systems for multi-processor systems.
• evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and apply them to real-world situations.
• critically analyse an operating system, identify performance requirements, and defend implementation strategies.

Operating systems: Processes, threads, scheduling. System calls. Support for synchronization and communication. Operating system organizations. Device drivers. Virtual memory. File systems. Security aspects.

02100/02101/02102/02105/02132, Experience in sequential programming; basic knowledge of computer systems organisation; experience with the C programming language.

Lectures, group project and experiments, presentations.

The course is a specialization course within the software technology bachelor line.