Guia docente 2017_18 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction and general perspective of the Operating systems	Concept of operating system. Structure of an operating system. Types of operating systems. Emulation and virtualization.
Processor management.	Concept of process and thread. Strategies of allocation of capacity of computation.
Memory management.	Strategies of contiguous allocation. Concepts of fragmentation, protection, compactation, relocation and sharing of memory. Strategies of non-conriguous allocation: paging, segmentation and hybrid methods. Virtual memory.
Permanent storage of the information.	Functions of a file system. Concepts of file and directory. Interface with the file system. File sharing. File Protection. File system implementation. Free space management. Methods for allocation of space to files.
Input/Output (I/O) management.	I/O Controllers. I/O Interfaces. Secondary and tertiary storage. Disk scheduling. Management of disk. Replication and consistency of the information. RAID and RAIN technologies.