Undergraduate Program - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING

General Data

Code: ECE321
Type of credits: ECTS
Number of credits: 6.00
Engagement hours: 4.00
Status: Elective
Academic Year: 3º
Term: 1º, 3º
Languages: English, Greek
Available for Mobility Students: Yes
Restricted to alliance: No

Coordination

https://courses.e-ce.uth.gr/ECE321/

Description

  • Model of concurrent execution.
  • The mutual exclusion problem.
  • Application-level algorithms for mutual exclusion.
  • Special synchronization instructions in hardware.
  • Semaphores.
  • Classical synchronization problems with semaphores.
  • Monitors.
  • Classical synchronization problems with monitors.
  • Conditional critical regions.
  • The Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) model.
  • The tuple space model.
  • Concurrent programming and synchronization in C/pthreads και Java.

Subject area

Software and Information System Engineering

Learning Outcomes

  • Understanding of the synchronization problem in concurrent systems.
  • Knowledge of the basic synchronization tools and mechanisms, and understanding of how these are implemented in operating systems and/or higher-level runtime environments.
  • Knowledge of indicative/classic synchronization problems and their solutions, and understanding of how such solutions are constructed/produced.
  • Knowledge of the basic concurrent programming and synchronization functions in C and Java, and application of this functionality in practice.