Operating Systems - COMP9201


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9201
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP9024 and COMP9032, or enrolment in MIT program 8684 or GradCert program 7344.
	Equivalent: COMP3231, COMP3891, COMP9283
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Operating system organisation and services. Process management: scheduling, synchronisation and communication. Memory management: virtual memory, paging and segmentation. Storage management: Disk scheduling, file systems. Protection and Security. Distributed operating systems and file systems. Case studies drawn from UNIX, MS-DOS, Mach. Lab. programming assignments.