Students should develop the following skills/acquire a good knowledge of:

• the role and the functions of operating systems
• design decisions for the management of OS resources
• mechanisms for the coordination of and the synchronization between parallel processes
• network communication and OS security

• introduction to operating systems (definition, history, important abstractions, OS architectures)
• processes and threads (process states, data structures and mechanisms for process management, multithreading)
• process synchronization and deadlock (mutual exclusion & condition synchronization, synchronization mechanisms and constructs, synchronization problems: producer-consumer, reader-writer, dining philosophers, deadlock, deadlock conditions, deadlock avoidance, deadlock prevention, deadlock detection
• memory management (allocation, relocation, segmentation, paging, virtual memory management, page replacement, protection and sharing)
• input-output and disk management (devices and device characteristics, I/O operations, drivers, buffering, disks, file systems, file system organization)
• networking (introduction, protocols, OS and networking)
• security and protection (threats, security measures, design for security, access control, authentification, encryoption)

Didactic concept: The listed topics will be introduced in the lecture, illustrative examples will be presented. Selected programming problems will be assigned in the accompanying lab course.

ECTS breakdown: 2 ECTS = 50 hours; 24h attendance of lecture, 24h preparation for lecture, postprocessing of lecture, preparation for exam, 2h exam

written or oral exam.

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Programming skills; systematic program development and evaluation.
Analysis of dependencies and interaction patterns, design of modular systems with interacting components.