TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree Without Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Assistant Professor Mehmet Dikmen
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Learn fundemental concepts of operating systems 2) Understand and explain the mechanisms of system processes 3) Understand concurrency 4) Learn process scheduling methods.
MODE OF DELIVERY	E-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	Basic modes of operating system, its mechanisms and structure. Processes and resources. Models. Threads. Inter-process communication. Mutual exclusion and synchronization. Concurrency models. Semaphores and monitors. Classical IPC problems. Deadlocks, its detection and recovery, the Banker's algorithm. CPU scheduling. Preemptive and non-preemptive strategies. Memory management. Swapping. Virtual memory, page table and paging algorithms.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Computer Architecture Overview 2nd Week Basic modes of operating system, its mechanisms and structure 3rd Week Process Structure and fundamental components 4th Week Threads 5th Week Concurrency: Introduction, Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization 6th Week Concurrency: Semaphores, Monitors 7th Week Concurrency IPC Problems: Producer & Consumer, Readers & Writers 8th Week Concurrency: Deadlock and strategies dealing with it 9th Week Concurrency: Starvation and Dining Philosophers Problem 10th Week Memory Management: Partitioning 11th Week Memory Management: Paging, Segmentation 12th Week Virtual Memory: OS software policies 13th Week Process Scheduling: Types, Algorithms 14th Week Final Exam
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	1. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Modern Operating Systems, 2/E, Prentice-Hall, 2001. 2. William Stallings. Operating Systems. Internals and Design Principles, 4/E, Prentice-Hall, 2001.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Assignment 1 20 Total(%) 20 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 20 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 80 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 3 42 Preparation for Final exam 1 40 40 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 2 2 Homework Presentation (including preperation) 1 80 80 Project 1 80 80 Total Workload 286 Total Workload / 30 9,53 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No