DM510: Operating Systems

• Give competence to
  • handle complex and development-oriented situations in academic and work settings
  • identify their own learning needs and to structure own learning in different learning environments
• Give skills to
  • make and justify decisions within the subject area
  • describe, formulate, and communicate problems and results to either peers and non-specialists or partners and users
• Provide knowledge about
  • principles for the design of computer hardware and operating systems, including distributed and parallel systems

• Describe different architecture styles for realizing operating systems and the fundamental abstractions managed by an operating system.
• Describe how several control flows can be realized, discuss problems related to concurrency, and describe how synchronization and communication between control flows can be achieved.
• Discuss the methods used for CPU, disc and page-replacement scheduling.
• Describe how memory can be virtualized and how it can be managed as a resource.
• Describe the notion of file systems, possible implementations, and discuss how mass-storage can be attached to a computer system.
• Describe the interplay between system software/applications, operating system kernel, and computer hardware.
• Describe the two main distributed operating system design principles, and describe the notion of networks and the layered approach to realize network protocols.
• Describe the notion of protection in an operating system, discuss existing solutions, and describe the security problems virus, worm, Trojan horse and buffer overflow attack.
• Implement system programs using contemporary operating system abstractions.
• Apply basic operating system abstractions in networked programming.
• Use the programming language C on operating system level.

• Add functionality to the kernel of a Linux operating system.
• Implement the organization layer of a file system.
• Write a clear and well-structured report

The following main topics are contained in the course:
Operating systems structure, system calls, interrupts, processes concept, multithreading, CPU scheduling, critical section problem, synchronization mechanisms, classical synchronization problems, atomic transactions, deadlock handling, swapping, memory allocation, paging, segmentation, demand paging, page replacement, frame allocation, file concept, directory implementation, mounting, free space management, disk structure, disk scheduling, RAID structure, protection, access matrix concept, security threats, encryption, authentication, distributed operating systems, networks, distributed file systems, virtualization,  programming in C

• Intro phase (lectures) - 36 hours
• Training phase: 24 hours

Educational activities 

• Using the acquired knowledge in projects.