CS-345: Operating Systems

Description of operating system procedures and their implementation: multiprogramming, process communication (synchronization, semaphores), context switching, process scheduling, system calls, interrupt handlers, deadlock, device independent I/O, device drivers, disk scheduling, memory management, virtual memory, paging algorithms, file systems, distributed operating systems. Laboratory exercises in modifying and augmenting a simple operating system.

Learning Objectives

Understand basic concepts of operating systems
Get familiar with the code base of an actual operating system like Linux
Learn fundamental concepts regarding process synchronization and memory management
Write and improve code of real operating systems

Instructor: Prof. Evangelos Markatos

Lectures:

Tuesday 16:00 - 18:00
Thursday 16:00 - 18:00
Friday 12:00 - 16:00 (Lab)

Course Credits:

8 ECTS
Mandatory Course

Prerequisites:

Mailing List:

Course: hy345-list@csd.uoc.gr
Teaching Assistants: hy345@csd.uoc.gr

Teaching Assistants	Email
Papadogiannakis Emmanouil	papamano@csd.uoc.gr
Tamiolakis Michail	csdp1286@csd.uoc.gr
Arakas Ioannis	csdp1235@csd.uoc.gr
Tripidakis Orestis	csd4235@csd.uoc.gr
Pachilakis Michalis	mipach@csd.uoc.gr

Teaching Assistants

Papadogiannakis Manos (papamano)

Tamiolakis Michail (csdp1286)

Arakas Ioannis (csdp1235)

Tripidakis Orestis (csd4235)

Pachilakis Michalis (mipach)

The final grade is calculated as follows:

40% Assignments:
- Assignment 1: 10%
- Assignment 2: 10%
- Assignment 3: 5%
- Assignment 4: 15%
60% Final Exam

Note: During final exams you are not allowed to use any kind of notes, books or communications devices (e.g. mobile phones, laptops)

Course Textbook:

"Modern Operating Systems", Andrew Tanenbaum, 4th edition

Course Overview:

Chapter 1. Introduction: History, what is an operating system, how an operating sytem is internally organized.
Chapter 2. Processes and Threads: Process Implementation. Synchronization, Locking, Scheduling, Resource management.
Chapter 3. Memory management: Address Translation, TLBs paging and segmentation. Virtual memory usages.
Chapter 4. File System: Directories, cache memory, protection, replacement policies.
Chapter 5. Input / Output: Device Drivers, Disks.
Chapter 6. Deadlock: Tracing, avoidance, exclusion.
Chapter 8. Distributed / Parallel OS: Distributed OS, network OS, distributed file systems.
Chapter 9. Security: Cryptography, Authentication, Attacks, Protection.
Chapter 12. Operating System Design

Final Exam Curriculum:

Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 12 (4th edition of the book).

CS-345: Operating Systems

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