Undergraduate Course: Operating Systems (INFR09015)

Course Outline
School	School of Informatics	College	College of Science and Engineering
Course type	Standard	Availability	Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Credits	10
Home subject area	Informatics	Other subject area	None
Course website	http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/os	Taught in Gaelic?	No
Course description	This course provides an introduction to the design and implementation of general purpose multi-tasking operating systems. It concentrates on the kernel aspects of such systems with the emphasis being on concepts which lead to practical implementations. Throughout the course reference is made to a number of significant actual operating systems (Linux, Windows variants etc.) to illustrate real implementations.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	This course is open to all Informatics students including those on joint degrees. For external students where this course is not listed in your DPT, please seek special permission from the course organiser.
Additional Costs	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)			Learn enabled: No	Quota: None
Web Timetable	Web Timetable
Course Start Date	15/09/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 8, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 68 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info)	Written Exam 75 %, Coursework 25 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name	Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)		2:00

Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)			Learn enabled: No	Quota: None
Web Timetable	Web Timetable
Course Start Date	15/09/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 76 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info)	Written Exam 75 %, Coursework 25 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name	Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)		2:00

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1 - describe the structure and components of modern operating systems 2 - explain the abstract concepts and concrete implementations of operating systems 3 - compare and contrast the differing approaches taken by various operating systems 4 - evaluate the suitability of differing approaches in different application domains 5 - design OS components to address particular needs

Assessment Information
Written Examination 75 Assessed Assignments 25 Oral Presentations 0 If delivered in semester 1, this course will have an option for semester 1 only visiting undergraduate students, providing assessment prior to the end of the calendar year.

Special Arrangements
None

Additional Information
Academic description	Not entered
Syllabus	Process management The process concept, synchronisation, mutual exclusion, semaphores and monitors. Threads. Inter-process communication. Resource Allocation Deadlock prevention, avoidance and detection. The OS Kernel Micro and Monolithic kernels. Multi-tasking, privilege, interrupt handling. System and user processes. System calls. Memory Management Description of problems of allocation, protection and sharing. Virtual Physical memory mapping schemes. Segmented paged virtual memory. Paging control, replacement algorithms; the working set model. Sharing code and data. Time Management CPU scheduling algorithms. Real-time scheduling. Disc access scheduling. File Management Naming and Directory schemes. Disc space allocation. File protection and access control. System security. Other Topics Various additional topics may be included from year to year. Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: Operating Systems
Transferable skills	Not entered
Reading list	* ** W. Stallings, 'Operating Systems, Internals and Design Principles' (5th edition or later), Prentice Hall, 2005. * * A. Silbershatz and P. Galvin, 'Operating Systems Concepts', (7th edition), Addison-Wesley, 2005
Study Abroad	Not entered
Study Pattern	Lectures 20 Tutorials 0 Timetabled Laboratories 0 Non-timetabled assessed assignments 25 Private Study/Other 45 Total 100
Keywords	Not entered