Identify primary functions of operating systems and their interaction with the hardware and their users.
Understand the architecture of UNIX and the impact of its standards on contemporary systems.
Understand process concept, the inter-process communication, multi-threaded programming.
Know process scheduling; synchronization and deadlock problems.
Understand memory management strategies (swapping, segmentation, paging); and virtual memory management implementation and trashing problems.
Get knowledge about storage management (file systems, mass storage structure, I/O systems).
Gain hands on experience on GNU/Linux operating system and ORACLE VirtualBox in order to understand basic mechanisms of contemporary virtual platforms.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
Lectures are delivered over CATS on-l'ne teaching platform and laboratory sessions are held at Department Computer Laboratories at the University.
Projects are designed to be implemented on systems at Department Computer Laboratory over the ORACLE VM VirtualBox virtualization platform.
Students who are willing to use their personal computer are required to have a workstation operating under W'11 equipped with at least 16 GBytes of memory, 300 GBytes hard disk, INTEL i7 or higher model CPUs and confıgured to host the GNU/Linux Virtual Machine provided for the course.
Tues. 09.00 - 18.00 @ AK 2 B 11/13/15
Any Day CATS/COM5031-OS Forums on-line
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Concepts, architectures, and processes presented in lectures are illustrated with implementation examples taken from UNIX & GNU/Linux systems. In this respect, students are expected to master C programming language and complex data structures covered in earlier core courses. Presentation slides used in support of lecture sessions are posted regularly at the CATS site of the course. This material should be used as study guidelines,students are advised to refer to the course textbook and provided references for comprehensive and authoritative coverage.
Projects are vital and compulsory components of Computer Engineering education. They play primary role not only in developing students’ analysis, synthesis and design skills, but also foster their professional proficiencies through realistic deployments over industry-standard platforms and the use of contemporary development tools. Project specifications are posted at the course CATS site at least one week before its laboratory sessions. Students are required to read project documents as soon as they are posted, and start the design and implementation phases. Laboratory sessions,unlike in introductory courses, are not used for tutorials or guided teaching, they are mainly dedicated to the implementation and testing of the current project. Students are provided with personal support to solve the problems they face in their development and debugging endeavor.
Principle Sources
Operating System Concepts Enhances Edition, 10th Ed., A. Silberschatz, P.B.Galvin, G. Gagne,Wiley 2018, ISBN 978-1-119-32091
The Linux Programming Interface, Michael Kerrisk, No Strack Press Inc. 2010, ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-220-3,
https://man7.org/tlpi/
Other Sources
Linux System Programming 2d ed., Robert Love, O’Reilly 2013 , http://pdf-ebooks-for-free.blogspot.com.tr/2015/01/oreilly-linux-system-programming.html
The GNU C Library Reference Manual, http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/pdf/libc.pdf
Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual, https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html,
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
OS Concepts, Functions and Evolution
Prj-1 Setting ORACLE VM VırtualBox virtualization platform and Study of C programs under Linux
2. Week
C Programs and their Execution Context
Prj-1 ... continued
3. Week
File Abstraction, OS-User Interface
Prj-1 ... continued
4. Week
OS - File System Integration
Prj-2 Users Management and ISAM & Low-level I/O APIs
5. Week
Memory Management, Virtual Memory
Prj-2 ... continued
6. Week
Process Concept, Scheduling
Prj-2 ... continued
7. Week
National Holiday
8. Week
Midterm Examinatins
9. Week
Inter-process Communications, pipes
Prj-3 Process Management, File Redirection, Cooperating ProcessesInter-Process Communication using ordinary Pipes
10. Week
Multithreaded Orogramming
Prj-3 .... continued
11. Week
Concurrency Control, Critical Sections
Prj-3 .... continued
12. Week
Concurrency Control using POSIX Semaphores
Prj-4 Multithreaded Programming with POSIX pthreads & Concurrency Control with POSIX Semaphores
13. Week
Deadlocks
Prj-4 .... continued
14. Week
Typical Concurrency Control Scenarios
Prj-4 .... continued..
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
20
Project(s)
4
40
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Adequate knowledge in mathematics, science and engineering subjects pertaining to the relevant discipline; ability to use theoretical and applied information in these areas to model and solve engineering problems.
PO-2
Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems; ability to select and apply proper analysis and modelling methods for this purpose.
PO-3
Ability to design a complex system, process, device or product under realistic constraints and conditions, in such a way so as to meet the desired result; ability to apply modern design methods for this purpose. (Realistic constraints and conditions may include factors such as economic and environmental issues, sustainability, manufacturability, ethics, health, safety issues, and social and political issues according to the nature of the design.)
PO-4
Ability to devise, select, and use modern techniques and tools needed for engineering practice; ability to employ information technologies effectively.
PO-5
Ability to design and conduct experiments, gather data, analyse and interpret results for investigating engineering problems.
PO-6
Ability to work efficiently in intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams; ability to work individually.
PO-7
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; knowledge of a minimum of one foreign language.
PO-8
Recognition of the need for lifelong learning; ability to access information, to follow developments in science and technology, and to continue to educate him/herself.
PO-9
Awareness of professional and ethical responsibility.
PO-10
Information about business life practices such as project management, risk management, and change management; awareness of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable development.
PO-11
Knowledge about contemporary issues and the global and societal effects of engineering practices on health, environment, and safety; awareness of the legal consequences of engineering solutions.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Identify operating system architectures; get knowledge on the evolution of influential operating systems and their standards.
LO-2
Understand hardware requirements supporting primary operating system functions; get the knowledge on hardware - software integration; overview main virtualization technologies and identify their requirements.
LO-3
Get knowledge on major user interfaces; examine user management and its implementation; understand file and directory structures; gain hands on experience on stream and low-level POSIX I/O APIs.
LO-4
Understand process concept and its implementation on Linux; explore inter-process communication mechanisms; overview process scheduling policies.
LO-5
Understand concept of thread of execution; explore multithreaded programming problems, develop applications with POSIX Pthreads; examine operating system support to implement threads.
LO-6
Understand synchronization and concurrency control problems; examine hardware and software solutions of the critical section problem; explore classical producer-consumer paradigm; gain hands on experience on POSIX Semaphores.
LO-7
Understand mass storage device management; examine I/O subsystem and its implementation; explore file system’s structure and its components, experiment with an existing implementation.
LO-8
Explore basic memory organization and management strategies; study program and process address space relationship; understand virtual memory management and demand paging mechanism; explore working-set model and trashing.
