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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Ronald Charles Moore
Event type:
Integrated Course
Org-unit: Dept. 20 - Computer Science
Displayed in timetable as:
OS
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
3
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Course Contents:
- Introduction to Operating Systems (OS) - Role, purpose and design issues
- Processes and Threads - OS structures, process control, abstractions, kernel/user modes and operations, context switching, interrupts
- Inter-Process Communication - Message passing IPC, RPC, layers, interfaces, hierarchies
- Coordination: Deadlocks - Process coordination, critical sections, deadlock characterization, deadlock detection and recovery, deadlock avoidance
- Scheduling/Resource Management - Task ordering, preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling, schedulers and policies, OS implementations
- Concurrency: Races, Mutual Exclusions - Critical sections, races, spin locks, synchronization
- Programming Abstractions: Semaphores - Semaphores, Monitors
- Memory Management - Storage structures, management/replacements approaches, virtual memory, paging, caching, segmentation
- I/O - Device management, drivers, segmentation, interrupt handling, DMA
- File systems - File systems requirements, design and implementation, file structures, directories, naming, partitions, virtual file systems
- Fault Tolerance/Resilience - Fault types, fault handling approaches, reliable message delivery, OS reliability and availability, security issues
- Embedded/RT OS - Memory/disk/performance management, recovery, fault-tolerances, real-time aspects
- Distributed OS - Distributed computation and communication abstractions, synchronization, coordination, consistency
- Virtual Machines - Purpose and types of virtualization, virtual file systems, Hypervisors
Literature:
- Modern Operating Systems; A. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-813459-6
- Operating System Concepts; Silberschatz et al, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0-470-23399-3
Preconditions:
Recommended:
“Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen”, “Funktionale und objektorientierte Programmierung”, “Rechnerorganisation”
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