Operating Systems and Security

You can review your exam results on Thursday, 17th October from 12:30 to 13:30 in room APB 3105 . Your student card and an official photo-bearing identification must be presented. Students from non-EU countries should bring their passport. If you are unable to attend on this date for important reasons please send an e-mail to Jan Bierbaum as soon as possible.

Individual appointments are not necessary. We do offer an optional preregistration though, which can help to reduce your waiting time.

We're conducting a survey to get some feedback on the lecture in general and its exam in particular. Participation is voluntary but we would appreciate a large turnout. The questions are in German but answering in English is also fine.

Topics

The lecture introduces the fundamentals of systems architecture. Students will learn the key building blocks and construction principles for local systems first and for distributed systems later on. A primary concern for us is to highlight references to neighboring topics. Examples are discussing the interaction of certain hardware characteristics with system building blocks, the introduction to the basics of cryptographic techniques and the application of mathematical methods to ascertain quantitative properties of systems. We also focus on some principles for constructing fault-tolerant and secure systems already in this basic course. A third concern is to get students acquainted with techniques for low-level machine-oriented programming at the latest in this lecture.

Breakdown of the lecture:

Introduction
Key Building Blocks
UNIX
Processes and Threads
Deadlocks
Security
Memory
Quantitative Methods
Client-Server-Architectures and Process-Communication in Distributed Systems
Security in Distributed Systems
File Systems
Distributed File Systems
Fault-Tolerance
Device Drivers

Slides (in German only)

Introduction:
- Building Blocks

Exercises

You can enroll into the regular tutorials starting from Friday, 18th of October, afternoon via JExam. In case tutorials get too crowded, the enrollment is binding. Exercises begin in the fourth week of the semester (week starting at the 21st of October).

In the week of 21st to 25th October the regular tutorials are replaced with two consultations in the computer pool:

Wednesday, 23. October, 3. DS, APB E046
Thursday, 24. October, 5. DS, APB E046

Die regulären Übungen finden wöchentlich zu folgenden Terminen statt:

Monday	7. DS	APB E009	Michael Sippel
Tuesday	3. DS	APB E008	Till Smejkal
Tuesday	5. DS	SCH A185	Manuel Thieme
Wednesday	3. DS	APB E009	Till Smejkal
Wednesday	6. DS	APB E009	Sebastian Reimers
Thursday	1. DS	APB E009	Till Smejkal
Thursday	2. DS	APB E010	Sebastian Reimers
Thursday	5. DS	APB E009	Manuel Thieme
Friday	1. DS	APB E001	Michael Sippel
Friday	3. DS	APB E006	Manuel Thieme

Tasks (in German only)

Unix

TUD