Duration
30h Th, 6h Pr, 30h Proj.
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The goal of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts and mechanisms used in operating systems. The content covers:
- Introduction/Overview: multi-programming; OS as a service; OS as a resource manager; OS organisation.
- Process management: computation abstraction; process, thread, multi-threading; inter-process communication; scheduling.
- Memory management: allocation strategies; dynamic address relocation; virtual memory.
- Storage management: file system structure; file system usage; file system implementation; protection; networked file system.
- Introduction to virtualisation: system virtualisation; paravirtualisation; kernel virtualisation.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
In this course, the students:
- learn the principles, core concepts and organisation of modern operating systems
- acquire practical system programming skills
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Knowledge of the C programming language. Computation structures.
PRE-REQUIS: INFO0946 or INFO2009
CO-REQUIS: INFO0012
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, practicals and lab sessions.The students carry out several programming assignments (group).
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Weekly lectures. Practical and lab sessions.
Recommended or required readings
Recommended readings: Operating System Concepts; Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne; Wiley. Operating Systems Design and Implementation; Tannenbaum, Woodhull; Prentice Hall.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam and group assignments. The assignments count towards 40% of the final mark, while the exam counts towards 60% of the final mark. Students who do not submit half of the projects will receive an absence mark for the corresponding exam session. There is no guaranteed support for projects to be resubmitted for the resit session.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
- Coordinator: L. Mathy, mailto:laurent.mathy@ulg.ac.be
- Teaching assistants: Kenichi Yasukata, kenichi.yasukata@uliege.be et Gaulthier Gain, gaulthier.gain@uliege.be