Course: Principles of Operating Systems

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Course title Principles of Operating Systems
Course code KI/POS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Fišer Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Operating system architecture 2. Memory management 3. Memory virtualization 4. Shared memory 5. Task management (CPU scheduling) 6. Threading 7. Synchronization 8. Interprocess communication 9. I/O subsystem 10. File system 11. Operating system security 12. Operating systems and MIMD (SMP)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course is focused on basic principles of contemporary operating systems and on their internal structures, especially from the view of application programmers (i.e. at the level of kernel interface, e.g. POSIX and Win32).

Prerequisites
unspecified
KI/OPS

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Bach M. J. Principy operačního systému UNIX. Softwarové Aplikace a Systémy, Praha, 1993. ISBN 80-901507-0-5.
  • Fišer J. Principy operačních systémů II. PřF UJEP.
  • Goodheart B., Cox J. The Magic Garden Explained: The Internals of Unix System V Release 4.. Prentice Hall, 1994. ISBN 978-0130981387.
  • Lukáš J. Jádro systému Linux. Computer Press, 2008. ISBN 9788025120842.
  • Stallings, W. Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, Global Edition. Pearson Education Limited, 2017. ISBN 978-1-292-21429-0.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Information Systems (A14) Category: Informatics courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: -