Operating systems I:

• Overview of computer systems and operating systems
• Proces management
• Concurrency
• Memory managent
• Processor scheduling
• I/O management

Datacommunications:

• Introductory concepts
• Transmission media
• Representation of data
• Elementary transmission techniques
• Datalink control
• Multiplexing and WAN access
• Switching techniques (WAN)
• Cases: xDSL and GSM

• Interrupts, instruction cycle, dissabling of interrupts, kernel mode and user modus
• Memory hierarchy, caching
• The operating system as a virtual machine and a manager of system resources
• Multitasking, multithreading, symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing
• Layers, modular and microkernel architectures
• Proces states and transitions
• Proces control information, proces identification and processor state information
• Proces creation and switching, mode and context switches
• Clock interrupts, I/O interrupts, pagefaults, traps and system calls
• Kernel-level and user-level threads
• Mutual exclusion, proces synchronisation and interproces communication
• Mutual exclusion using software and hardware techniques
• Counting and binary semafores, monitors and their applications
• Deadlocks: detection, recovery, prevention and avoidance
• Memory management constraints: management of memory usage
• Fixed and dynamic partitioning, paging and segmentation
• Adressing and dynamic adres translation, page tables and segment tables
• Virtual memory, pagefaults, inverted page tables, TLB buffer
• Relocation strategies, local and global replacement strategies (clock strategy and others)
• Page buffering and workset approximation
• Scheduling levels
• Dispatching criterions and strategies, realtime scheduling
• Principles of I/O hardware and of I/O software
• Programmed and interrupt driven I/O, DMA, I/O channels
• I/O buffering and disk scheduling, disk cache
• Bandwidth, transmission rate, linear distortion, non-linear distortion, noice, signal-noice ratio, information, code redundancy, source coding, channel coding, channel capacity
• UTP, coax, multimode optical fiber, modal dispersion, chromatic dispersion, polarision dispersion.
• NRZ, biphase coding, multilevel binary coding, ASK, FSK, PSK, QAM, PCM, DM, DPCM, ADPCM
• Asynchronous and synchronous transmission, clock extraction, CRC, error correction, modems, echo cancellation.
• Poll & select, peer-to-peer connection, CSMA/CD, Token, flow control, efficiciency, stop-and-wait, sliding window flow control, piggybacking, Go back N-ARQ, selective reject ARQ, HDLC.
• FDMA, synchronous TDMA, PDH, SDH, asynchronous TDMA, ATM, WDMA, CDMA
• Connection-oriented and connection-free communication, packetswitching, virtual circuit switching
• HDSL, VDSL, ADSL, cellular network, GSM, DECT

• The relationship between computer systems and operating systems
• Typical aspects of modern operating systems
• Overview of UNIX and Windows architectures
• Techniques for interproces communication and mutual exclusion
• Methods for detection, recovery, prevention and avoidance of deadlocks
• Techniques for memory management
• Practical algoritms for memory management and processor scheduling
• Principles of I/O hardware and I/O software
• Properties and behavior of communication channels
• Qualitative assessment of encoding techniques and digital modulation techniques
• Operation of a modem
• Datalink protocol mechanisms
• Basic concepts to build voice netwerks and WAN

• Ability to apply general scientific insights to scientific problems (AWC1)
• Ability to gather and process scientific and technical information in an adequate way (AWC4)
• Ability to use, manage and maintain present-day operating systems (SC4)
• Ability to analyse, design and implement datacommunication and telecommunication systems

Further reading:

• Bic, Lubomir F. en Shaw, Alan C., Operating Systems Principles, Prentice Hall, 2003
• Deitel, Harvey M., Deitel, Paul J. en Choffnes, David R., Operating Systems, Prentice Hall, 2004
• Matthijsen, R., Truijens, J.J. en Doorenspleet, H., Computernetwerken en datacommunicatie, Academic Service
• O'Gorman, John, Operating System with Linux, Palgrave, 2001
• Silberschatz, Abraham, Galvin, Peter Baer en Gagne, Greg, Operating System Concepts with Java, Wiley, 2004
• Stallings, William, Data and Computer Communications 7de editie, Prentice Hall
• Tanenbaum, Andrew, Computernetwerken 4de editie, Pearson Education
• Tanenbaum, Andrew, Modern Operating Systems, Prentice Hall, 2001