- Docente: Alessandro Ricci
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Telecommunications and Electronic Engineering (cod. 0649)
Learning outcomes
The course introduces the fundamental issues that concern
modern
operating systems, ranging from architectural and structural
aspects to
functioning and dynamics, balancing theory and practice. The
arguments
are exemplified taking as references three modern operating
system
families, such as Unix (Linux), Windows (XP) and Mac OS X (Darwin
/
Mach).
Besides the description of the classic issues, the course
introduces the students to the d design and programming of
concurrent
software systems, using Java as the reference language for the
practice.
Course contents
The course is composed by the following parts:
- Introduction to modern Operating Systems
- objectives, organisation, architectures
- Services and functioning of Operating Systems
- Process management
- Memory management
- I/O subsystems and network management
- Protection and Security
- System programming
- Shell and script programming in Unix Shell (Bourne)
- The C language
- Design and implementation of an OS: MINIX
- general architecture and implementation of some kernel parts
- modification and extension of the kernel, and kernel re-compilation
- Introduction to concurrent programming
- Multi-threded programming in Java
Readings/Bibliography
The reference textbook for the course is
- "Sistemi Operativi" (Ancillotti, Boari, Ciampolini, Lipari),
McGraw-Hill, 2004
- "Operating Systems - Design and Implementation"
(Tanenmaum,Woodhull), Prentice-Hall, 2006
Teaching methods
The course is developed in six hours per week, four for theory and two for practice.
Assessment methods
The final assessment is composed by two parts:
(1) written examination, composed by exercises about the content of
the course
(2) practice, composed by a set of programs to be developed at
home
The programs can be assigned and developed during the course - for
students attending the course - or assigned and developed within
the next week after the written examination.
Assessment weightings:
- 50% for the written examination
- 50% for the practice
Teaching tools
The main reference for the course content is the set of course
notes
(slides) discussed during the lessons and available for download
from
the course web site. For the practice, a laboratory with 80
computers
with different kind of OSs is available.
All the material is available on the ufficial web site of the
course: http://corsi.ing2.unibo.it/SISOP0708
Links to further information
http://corsi.ing2.unibo.it/SISOP0708
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Ricci