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Semester 2

Operating Systems (INFR10079)

Subject

Informatics

College

SCE

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students are required to have comparable background to that assumed by the course prerequisites listed in the Degree Regulations & Programmes of Study. If in doubt, consult the course organiser (lecturer).

Course Summary

This course provides an introduction to the design and implementation of modern general-purpose operating systems. It concentrates on the operating system kernel with the emphasis being on concepts that lead to practical implementations. Throughout the course reference is made to a number of widely-adopted general-purpose operating systems (including Linux, Windows, and OS X) to illustrate real implementations. An educational operating system is used for the coursework.

Course Description

The OS Kernel*Micro and Monolithic kernels*Multi-tasking, multi-user*Interrupt handling, system callsProcess Management*The process concept*The thread concept*Inter-process communicationTime Management*CPU scheduling algorithmsResource Management*Synchronisation, mutual exclusion*Semaphores, and monitors*Deadlock prevention, avoidance, and detectionMemory Management*The problem of allocation, protection, and sharing*Physical and virtual memory*Paged virtual memoryStorage Management*Storage technologies*File SystemsVirtualization *Virtual Machines*ContainersRelevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: Operating Systems

Assessment Information

Written Exam 50%, Coursework 50%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Assessment Information

The coursework component is worth 50% of the overall grade of the course. The coursework consists of several programming exercises.Exam 50%

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