After successful completion of the course, students are able to describe the role and the functions of operating systems, judge design decisions for the management of OS resources, use mechanisms for the coordination of and the synchronization between parallel processes, and elaborat on OS security mechanisms.

• 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 problem
• s: 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)

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.

This course will be held together with the lecture part of the Operating Systems Course. For details, please visit the course page of the Operating Systems Course (VU), Lecture ID 191.002.

The course introduction will be held on Oct. 3, 13:00 c.t., in Informatikhörsaal. Please make use of the live stream to avoid that the number of local participants exceeds the capacity of the lecture room. People following the live stream will be able to post questions online.

Oral exam.

Book "Operating Systems" by William Stallings.

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