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Period | From | To |
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1° | Sep 30, 2002 | Nov 29, 2002 |
2° | Jan 13, 2003 | Mar 14, 2003 |
3° | Apr 7, 2003 | Jun 13, 2003 |
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First term | Dec 9, 2002 | Dec 20, 2002 |
Second term | Mar 24, 2003 | Apr 4, 2003 |
Third term | Jun 23, 2003 | Jul 4, 2003 |
First extra term | Jul 7, 2003 | Jul 18, 2003 |
Second extra term | Sep 1, 2003 | Sep 12, 2003 |
Third extra term | Sep 15, 2003 | Sep 26, 2003 |
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Easter Holidays | Apr 18, 2003 | Apr 27, 2003 |
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Academic staff
Burattini Emilio
emilio.burattini@univr.itPiccinini Nicola
piccinini@sci.univr.it +39 349 7461319Rossato Rosalba
rossato@sci.univr.it +39 045 802 7077Scollo Giuseppe
giuseppe . scollo at univr . it 045 802 7940Study Plan
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4° Year activated in the A.Y. 2005/2006
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Advanced Operating Systems (2005/2006)
Teaching code
4S00067
Teacher
Credits
5
Also offered in courses:
- Advanced Operating Systems of the course Level 1 Masters in Network Planning and Management
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
Period
Not yet assigned
Location
VERONA
Learning outcomes
The course presents theoretical and practical aspects related to distributed and real-time operating systems. Theoretical lessons will be supported by practical exercitations in laboratory.
The course consists of 44 theoretical and practical hours.
Program
* Introduction
- Non-conventional operating systems
° Distributed operating systems
° Multi-processor operating systems
° Real-time operating systems
° Embedded operating systems
° Structure of non-conventional operating systems
° Microkernel
° Exokernel
° Cluster
- Example of non-conventional operating systems
* Distributed operating systems
- Problems
- HW/SW architectures
- Design metrics (transparency, flexibility, reliability, scalability)
- Communication on distributed systems
- Protocols
- Client/server paradigm
* Synchronization on distributed systems
- Clock synchronization
- Mutual exclusion and atomic transitions
- Deadlock
* Distributed file systems
- Problems and implementation
- Naming and caching
- Case studies: NFS, LFS, AFS
* Shared distributed memory
- Conceptual model
- Implementation
- Consistency
* Real-time operating systems
- Problems and constraints
- Determinism
- Reactivity
- Reliability
- Examples
* Scheduling on real-time operating systems
- Clock, deadline and time-out
- Priority scheduling
- Deadline scheduling
- Aperiodic and periodic scheduling
* Laboratory exercitations
- Introduction to the cross-toolchain
- The eCos operating system
- Cross-compilation for eCos
- eCos kernel reconfiguration
- HW/SW/NW co-simulation
- Devide driver
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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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 | ||
W. Stallings | Operating Systems - Internal and Design Principles (Edizione 3) | Prentice Hall | 1998 | 0138874077 |
Examination Methods
The exams is written and it consists of practical exercises and questions. The oral exam is facultative. A project is required for the laboratory module.
Teaching materials e documents
- Calendario lezioni (html, it, 65 KB, 24/02/06)
- Dispense (html, it, 0 KB, 02/01/07)
- Progetti di laboratorio (pdf, it, 33 KB, 22/02/06)
- Temi d'esame (pdf, it, 3390 KB, 27/03/06)
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