Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

Study Plan

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
INF/01
6
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
ING-INF/05

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2012/2013

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
INF/01
Tre insegnamenti a scelta tra i seguenti
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
SECS-P/10
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
INF/01
6
C
FIS/01
Altre attivita' formative
4
F
-
24
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
INF/01
6
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
ING-INF/05
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
8
D
-

Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)

TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Advanced Operating Systems  (2012/2013)

Teaching code

4S00067

Teacher

Graziano Pravadelli

Coordinator

Graziano Pravadelli

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Period

I semestre dal Oct 1, 2012 al Jan 31, 2013.

Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The course presents advanced concepts related to special classes of operating systems, with particular regards to distributed, real-time and embedded operating systems. The main objective consists of highlighting differences between traditional and advanced operating systems in the context of processes, memory and file system management.

Program

Theory:
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* Introduction: HW/SW classification, architecture of non conventional operating systems, goals and problems.
* Introduction to distributed operating systems: goals and problems.
* Communication in distributed systems: client-server model, remote procedure call, group communication.
* Synchronization in distributed systems: synchronization of logical and physical clocks, identification of the global state, distributed mutual exclusion, atomic transaction, deadlock management, election algorithms.
* Process management: process allocation and migration, scheduling algorithms.
* Distributed shared memory: definition and implementation, memory consistency.
* Distributed File system: access model, sharing semantics, implementation, data migration and replication, consistency mechanisms.
* Real-time operating systems: definition, objective and problems.
* Scheduling in real time operating systems: scheduling of periodic, aperiodic and mixed tasks.

Laboratory:
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* Embedded operating system: Introduction to the eCos operating system.
* Communication in embedded systems: Introduction to the ZigBee communication protocol.
* Mobile embedded systems: Introduction to development environments.
* Smartphone: Introduction to development environment (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
A.Tanenbaum Disitributed Operating Systems Prentice Hall 1994 0132199084
Giorgio Buttazzo "HARD REAL-TIME COMPUTING SYSTEMS: Predictable Scheduling Algorithms and Applications", Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

Examination Methods

The final examination consists of a written test containing questions and exercises of both theory and laboratory.
The test is passed with a grade of at least 18/30. The maximum grade is 30/30.

A laboratory project (to be done in a group of 2/3 students) is optional and it may consist of:
- implementing/modifying one or more functionalities of a real-time operating system
- analyzying, evaluating and presenting new trends on distributed or real-time operating systems.
The maximum grande for the project is 4/30 to be added to the grade of the written examination.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Teaching materials e documents