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INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEM(18CS654)

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEM

(OPEN ELECTIVE)
SEMESTER – VII
Course Code-18CS654
CIE Marks-40
Number of Contact Hours/Week-3:0:0
SEE Marks-60
Total Number of Contact Hours-40
Exam Hours-03
CREDITS –3

Course Learning Objectives: This course (18CS654) will enable students to:

 Explain the fundamentals of operating system
 Comprehend multithreaded programming, process management, memory management and storage management.
 Familier with various types of operating systems

Module – 1

Introduction: What OS do, Computer system organization, architecture, structure, Operations, Process, memory and storage management, Protection and security, Distributed systems, Special purpose systems, computing environments.
System Structure: OS Services, User OSI, System calls, Types of system calls, System programs, OS design and implementation, OS structure, Virtual machines, OS generation, system boot
Textbook1: Chapter 1, 2
RBT: L1, L2

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Module – 2

Process Concept: Overview, Process scheduling, Operations on process, IPC, Examples in IPC, Communication in client-server systems.
Multithreaded Programming: Overview, Models, Libraries, Issues, OS Examples
Textbook1: Chapter 3,4
RBT: L1, L2

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Module – 3

Process Scheduling: Basic concept, Scheduling criteria, Algorithm, multiple processor scheduling, thread scheduling, OS Examples, Algorithm Evaluation.
Synchronization: Background, the critical section problem, Petersons solution, Synchronization hardware, Semaphores, Classic problems of synchronization, Monitors, Synchronization examples, Atomic transactions
Textbook1: Chapter 5, 6
RBT: L1, L2

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Module – 4

Deadlocks: System model, Deadlock characterization, Method of handling deadlock, Deadlock prevention, Avoidance, Detection, Recovery from deadlock
Memory management strategies: Background, swapping, contiguous memory allocation, paging, structure of page table, segmentation,
Textbook1: Chapter 7, 8
RBT: L1, L2

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Module – 5

Virtual Memory management: Background, Demand paging, Copy-on-write, Page replacement, allocation of frames, Trashing, Memory mapped files, Allocating Kernel memory, Operating system examples
File system: File concept, Access methods, Directory structure, File system mounting, File sharing, protection
Textbook1: Chapter 9, 10
RBT: L1, L2

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Course outcomes: The students should be able to:

 Explain the fundamentals of operating system
 Comprehend process management, memory management and storage management.
 Familiar with various types of operating systems

Question Paper Pattern:

 The question paper will have ten questions.
 Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
 There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
 Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
 The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

1. A. Silberschatz, P B Galvin, G Gagne, Operating systems, 7th edition, John Wiley and sons,.
Reference Books:
1. William Stalling,"Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles", Pearson Education, 1st Edition, 2018.
2. Andrew S Tanenbaum, Herbert BOS, "Modern Operating Systems", Pearson Education, 4th Edition, 2016