Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
Period | From | To |
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I semestre | Oct 1, 2018 | Jan 31, 2019 |
II semestre | Mar 4, 2019 | Jun 14, 2019 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione invernale d'esame | Feb 1, 2019 | Feb 28, 2019 |
Sessione estiva d'esame | Jun 17, 2019 | Jul 31, 2019 |
Sessione autunnale d'esame | Sep 2, 2019 | Sep 30, 2019 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione Estiva | Jul 18, 2019 | Jul 18, 2019 |
Sessione Autunnale | Oct 17, 2019 | Oct 17, 2019 |
Sessione Invernale | Mar 18, 2020 | Mar 18, 2020 |
Period | From | To |
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Sospensione dell'attività didattica | Nov 2, 2018 | Nov 3, 2018 |
Vacanze di Natale | Dec 24, 2018 | Jan 6, 2019 |
Vacanze di Pasqua | Apr 19, 2019 | Apr 28, 2019 |
Festa del Santo Patrono | May 21, 2019 | May 21, 2019 |
Vacanze estive | Aug 5, 2019 | Aug 18, 2019 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Science and Engineering Teaching and Student Services Unit.
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Academic staff
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Advanced Operating Systems (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S00067
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
The teaching is organized as follows:
Teoria
Laboratorio
Learning outcomes
The course aims to train students on the theoretical and advanced implementation aspects of special classes of operating systems, with particular regard to distributed, real-time, and embedded operating systems. The main objective of the course is therefore to highlight the main differences between conventional and unconventional operating systems in the management of processes, memory and file system.
Upon completion of the course, the student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired the fundamental knowledge to understand the internal organization, operation and services of unconventional operating systems. In particular, this will include:
i) the differences between a conventional operating system and distributed, embedded and real-time operating systems;
ii) the strategies used by unconventional operating systems to manage the resources of a computer;
iii) the fields of application of non-conventional operating systems.
This knowledge will allow the student to:
i) develop programs with the awareness of how an unconventional operating system manages the resulting processes;
ii) developing applications that use primitives (system calls) made available by particular categories of embedded and real-time operating systems;
iii) developing and modifying components of an embedded and real-time operating system.
At the end of the course the student will have acquired the ability to independently evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different design choices in the services offered by an unconventional operating system.
Moreover he/she will be able to:
i) carrying out a laboratory project and presenting its results, motivating the choices with language appropriateness:
ii) independently pursuing the study and research in the field of distributed, embedded and real-time operating systems, addressing advanced issues in both the industrial and scientific fields.
Program
Theory:
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* Introduction: HW/SW classification, architecture of non conventional operating systems, goals and problems.
* Introduction to distributed operating systems: goals and problems.
* Communication in distributed systems: client-server model, remote procedure call, group communication.
* Synchronization in distributed systems: synchronization of logical and physical clocks, identification of the global state, distributed mutual exclusion, atomic transaction, deadlock management, election algorithms.
* Process management: process allocation and migration, scheduling algorithms.
* Distributed shared memory: definition and implementation, memory consistency.
* Distributed File system: access model, sharing semantics, implementation, data migration and replication, consistency mechanisms.
* Real-time operating systems: definition, objective and problems.
* Scheduling in real time operating systems: scheduling of periodic, aperiodic and mixed tasks.
Laboratory:
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* Embedded operating system: Introduction to the eCos operating system.
* Communication in embedded systems: Introduction to the ZigBee communication protocol.
* Mobile embedded systems: Introduction to development environments.
* Smartphone: Introduction to development environment (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)
Examination Methods
To pass the exam, the student must show:
- they have understood the principles related to how distributed and real-time operating systems work
- they are able to describe the concepts in a clear and exhaustive way without digressions
- they are able to apply the acquired knowledge to solve application scenarios described by means of exercises, questions and projects.
The final examination consists of a written test containing questions and exercises of both theory and laboratory.
The test is passed with a grade of at least 18/30. The maximum grade is 30/30.
A laboratory project (to be done in a group of 2/3 students) is optional and it may consist of:
- implementing/modifying one or more functionalities of a real-time operating system
- analyzying, evaluating and presenting new trends on distributed or real-time operating systems.
The maximum grande for the project is 4/30 to be added to the grade of the written examination.
Type D and Type F activities
Documents and news
- PIANO DIDATTICO LM-18 LM-32 (octet-stream, it, 17 KB, 21/09/18)
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Graduation
Deadlines and administrative fulfilments
For deadlines, administrative fulfilments and notices on graduation sessions, please refer to the Graduation Sessions - Science and Engineering service.
Need to activate a thesis internship
For thesis-related internships, it is not always necessary to activate an internship through the Internship Office. For further information, please consult the dedicated document, which can be found in the 'Documents' section of the Internships and work orientation - Science e Engineering service.
Final examination regulations
List of theses and work experience proposals
Attendance
As stated in the Teaching Regulations for the A.Y. 2022/2023, attendance at the course of study is not mandatory.