Operating systems

Professors

• Siracusa Domenico
• Franzil Matteo

Lessons

• Operating system fundamentals and architecture
• Operating system kernel internals and system calls
• Operating system architecture and process memory
• Process lifecycle and context switching
• Inter-process communication and shared memory
• Thread synchronization and multicore systems
• Pthreads, OpenMP, and CPU scheduling methods
• Multilevel queue scheduling and realtime systems
• Critical sections and Peterson algorithm solutions
• Mutexes semaphores and monitors
• Liveness deadlock and priority inheritance
• Deadlock prevention and detection methods
• Memory management and address translation
• TLB caching and page table structure design
• Memory segmentation and virtual memory management
• Mass storage and I/O subsystem architecture
• I/O management and data transfer strategies
• File systems, directories, and memory-mapped files
• File system allocation and recovery methods
• Operating system security threats and defenses
• Operating system protection and access control
• Virtualization and container technologies