WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 - 2017
CS 302
OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Instruction |
4 |
Periods per week |
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Duration of University Examination |
3 |
Hours |
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University Examination |
75 |
Marks |
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Sessional |
25 |
Marks |
UNIT-I
Introduction to operating systems: OS structure and strategies, Process concept, Interprocess communication, Threads, Multithreaded programming.
Process scheduling: Scheduling criteria, Scheduling Algorithms, Multi Process scheduling, Thread Scheduling.
UNIT-II
Memory Management, swapping, contiguous allocation, paging, static and dynamic partition, demand paging, page replacement algorithms, thrashing, segmentation with paging, Virtual memory.
File System Interface: File Concept, Access Methods, Directory Structure, File System Mounting, File sharing, protection.
File System implementation: File system structure, File system implementations, Directory implementation, Allocation Methods, Free space management, Efficiency and performance, recovery.
Case Studies: UNIX file system, Windows file system
UNIT-III
Process Synchronization: Critical section problem, semaphore, monitors.
Deadlocks: Necessary conditions, resource allocation graph, methods for handling deadlocks, preventions, avoidance, detection and recovery, protection, goals of protection, domain of protection, access matrix .
UNIT-IV
Device Management: Disk structure, Disk Attachment, Disk Scheduling, Disk Management, RAID Structure, Stable storage implementation.
I/O System: I/O hardware, Application I/O interface, Kernel I/O Subsystem, Transforming I/O request to hardware operation, STREAMS.
UNIT-V
Case Studies:
LINUX System: Design Principles, Kernel Modules, Process Management, Scheduling Memory Management, File Systems, Input and Output, Interprocess communication, Network Structure, Security.
Windows XP: Design Principles, Architecture, Environmental subsystem, File Subsystem, Networking, Programming interface, Android OS
Suggested Reading:
- 1.Abraham Silberchatz, Peter B.Galvin, Greg Gagne, Operating System-Concepts, Wiley India, 2006.
- 2.Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, Third Edition, Pearson education, Asia-2008.
- 3.DhananjayM.Dhamdhere, Operating System-concept based approach, third edition, Tata McGraw Hill, Asia-2009.
Robert Love: Linux kernel Development, Pearson Education, 2004.