PC laboratories with Linux & Windows OS

Operating System Concepts, Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne, 9th edition, 2012, John Wiley.

Modern Operating Systems, Andrew Tanenbaum, 3rd Edition, 2013, Pearson, ISBN-10: 1292025778, ISBN-13: 978-1292025773.

Operating Systems, Internals & Design Principles, William Stallings, 8th Edition, 2014, Pearson Education.

Lectures 2 hours per week, tutorial/practical 1 hour per week, directed reading and research. The practical will go through exercises that will help students to understand and give practical application to the lecture material.
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Coursework 100% consisting of:
Class Test, 50 minutes, 30% - learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3.
Portfolio 70% - portfolio of exercises drawn from the weekly tutorial and practical work, weighted at 70%, learning outcome 3.

History of operating systems development. Operating system as a resource manager. Processes, threads and concurrency. Scheduling. Synchronisation and communication. Deadlocks. Memory hierarchy. Memory management including virtual memory. File systems and secondary storage organisation. Device independence. Peripherals, I/O and device drivers. User interface. Introduction to distributed and network operating systems. Special features of embedded operating systems.

Students must be registered on the special programme run for EFREI.

In studying this module, you will learn about the fundamental concepts e.g. process, thread, hardware requirements, CPU scheduling, process synchronisation, main memory management, virtual memory, file system, user interface etc. of a modern operating system e.g. Windows and Linux. Upon successful completion of the module, you should have become a skilled user of both Window and Unix based operating system e.g. Linux.