433-332 Operating Systems

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

433-252, 433-253, and 433-254

Pre/corequisites

431-204 or 433-251

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

The objective of this subject is for students: to understand the function of operating system components and their interactions; to be able to exploit operating system facilities to improve the functionality and efficiency of programs; and to be able to evaluate the suitability of a given operating system for a given task.

Topics covered include: Operating system structure: interrupts, system calls. Memory management: paging, segmentation. Concurrent processes: mutual exclusion, synchronisation, deadlocks, scheduling. Input/output, DMA. File systems, security. Introduction to distributed systems.

Assessment

Up to three-hours of written examinations at the end of the subject. Project work, which is expected to take about 36 hours, must be completed satisfactorily to pass the subject. Weighting of assessment components will be made known at the commencement of the subject