Lecturer: Luca Lombardi  

Course name: Operating Systems
Course code: 502478
Degree course: Ingegneria Meccatronica
Disciplinary field of science: ING-INF/05
The course relates to:
University credits: CFU 6
Course website: http://vision.unipv.it/corsi/

Specific course objectives

The course aims at explaining the functions and the architectures of modern operating systems. After a brief introduction on the history of operating systems and their relationship with computer technology, the course describes the problems and the main solutions for memory management (especially virtual memory), CPU scheduling and processes, deadlock and semaphores. Other main topics are I/O management, the file system and some key aspect of security, criptography.

Course programme

Introduction to operating systems
History of the operating systems. Classification of operating systems.

CPU and memory management
CPU states. Definition of process and sheduling. Interprocess comunication: semaphores and deadlock. Memory management. Virtual memory.

File system
Files, space allocation on disks. Filesystem management. I/O scheduling.

Security
The security of operating systems. Virus, logical bombs, trapdoor ... Introduction to cryptography.

Course entry requirements

The contents of Fondamenti di Informatica and Calcolatori Elettronici.

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 42
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 6
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0

Suggested reading materials

Andrew S Tanenbaum Albert S Woodhull. Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 3/E . Prentice Hall.

Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne. Operating System Concepts, 7th Edition. Wiley.

Testing and exams

The exam consists of two tests during the course or a singol final written test.