Advanced operating systems

The course aims to:
- Understand the architecture and types of operating systems
- Understand and master the different types of tasks as well as the means of communication and synchronization, in addition to some notions of scheduling.
- Learn how to design multitasking programs
- Understand memory management in an operating system.

Prerequisites:

Algorithms and computer architectures
C programming
Programming project
Introduction to operating systems

- Part 1: Introduction to operating systems
+ Definition of an operating system
+ Operating system features
+ Different operating system classifications
+ Operating system architectures
- Part 2: Tasks, processes and threads
+ Task concepts
+ Processes and threads
+ Task contexts
+ Concurrency
- Part 3: Synchronization and communication
+ System V and Posix IPCs (semaphores, message queues, shared memories)
+ Tubes and Signals
- Part 4: Basics of memory management
+ History of memory management
+ Swap
+ Pagination
+ Virtualization
+ Segmentation