Assignment 50%. Learning Outcomes 1, 3 & 4. Develop, test and implement a software artefact that will communicate between 1 or more operating systems and an electronic device in a generic manner.

2 hour Exam 50%. Learning Outcomes 2 & 5 Final Assessment.

Device Drivers
Hardware Interface techniques
Communication Protocols
Remote communication techniques
Fall back concepts (i.e. when communications lost or not established)
Windows / Linux / UNIX / MAC
Shell scripting
Internetworking with TCP/IP: Concepts Architectures and Protocols
Internet Protocol Addresses
The structure of the Internet & Client_Server Paradigm
Naming with Domain Name Systems and Programming
The Socket Interface & Network Programming
Applications of networking
Characterisation of Distributed Systems and design goals
Interposes Communication: communication primitives, semantics and supporting services and fault tolerance.
Remote Procedure Calling
Distributed systems management and services.
Distributed file system.
Time and Coordination
Distributed mutual exclusion
Concurrency Control
Transaction Processing
Replication
Safety and security issues

Operating Systems, Internals & Design Principles. William Stallings. Sixth Edition. 2009. ISBN-13 978-0-13-603337-0. Pearson International

Virtual environment. e.g.VMWare.
Access to embedded systems
Access to UNIX, Windows and Android Operating systems

Prior study of CESCOM10075-4 Hardware and Computer Systems or equivalent

The learning strategies will be 26 hours of lectures and 26 hours of tutorial/practicals