Advanced Operating Systems

• 39 hrs lectures
• 13 hrs projects

• 65 pts final exam (written part)
• 15 pts mid-term test (written part)
• 20 pts projects

Students are acquainted with the parallel programming using POSIX threads, usage of synchronization primitives, virtual memory and file system.
A deeper understanding of computer systems and system programming.

The goal is to acquaint students with the principles and concepts that are used as a basis of modern operating system kernels.

• Hardware/Software Codesign (HSC)

C language programming in Unix environment, computer architecture, Intel x86 assembler, basic principles of operating systems.

• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html), O'Reilly, 1999, ISBN 1-56592-582-3
• Andrews, G.R.: Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-35752-6
• Love, R.: Linux Kernel Development, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2005, ISBN 0-672-32720-1
• Bic, L., Shaw, A.C.: Operating Systems Principles, Prentice-Hall, 2003, ISBN 0-13-026611-6
• Nutt, G.J.: Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective, Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-61251-8
• Vahalia, U.: Unix Internals: The New Frontiers, Prentice-Hall, 1996, ISBN 0-13-101908-2
• Schimmel, K.: UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63338-8
• McKusick, M.K., Neville-Neil, G.V.: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-201-70245-2
• Stevens, W.,R.: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment: Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, 0-201-43307-9

1. Kernel structure, interface, system calls, context switch, interrupts, system interface, Unix systems interface, standardization, SVID, XPG.
2. Processes and POSIX threads, creating processes and threads, threads implementation.
3. Parallel programming, synchronization, synchronization basics, mutual exclusion using memory read&write.
4. Synchronization using special instructions on uni-processor and multiprocessor systems with shared memory, priority inversion and solution.
5. Synchronization tools and programming languages frameworks, classical synchronization tasks and their solutions.
6. Processor scheduling, strategy, implementation, scheduling algorithms for uni-processor systems.
7. Resource allocation, deadlock, deadlock avoidance, solutions for CR and SR systems.
8. Memory architecture, paging, page tables and TLB.
9. Virtual memory, paging algorithm, page replacement algorithms.
10. Practical aspects of virtual memory - code sharing, memory sharing, locking, dynamic libraries, file mapping, kernel memory.
11. Input and output, drivers, synchronous and asynchronous operations, disk I/O optimization.
12. Files systems, organization, space allocation, free space allocation, failure recovery, Unix file systems, BSD FFS and log based file systems.
13. Security and protection, system access, data protection, security risks.

• Threads and synchronization.
• Message passing in Unix.
• Signals and signal handling.

Written mid-term exam (max. 15 points) and submitted projects in due date. Projects have to be submitted before the deadline, late project submission will be graded 0 points.

The knowledge of students is examined by the projects and by the final exam.