Operating System (OS)
- Unit -1 Computer System Overview, Operating System Overview, Processes
- Computer System Overview:
- Basic Elements
- Processor Registers
- Instruction Execution
- Interrupts
- The Memory Hierarchy
- Cache Memory.
- Operating System Overview:
- Operating System Objectives and Functions
- The Evolution of OS
- Major Achievements
- Characteristics of Modern OS
- Process Description and Control:
- Process States
- Process Description
- Process Control
- UNIX Process Management.
- Threads:
- Processes and Threads
- Concurrency Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization:
- Principles of Concurrency
- Mutual Exclusion
- Software Approaches
- Mutual Exclusion: Hardware Support
- Semaphores
- Monitors
- Message Passing
- Reader/Writer Problem
- Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation:
- Principles of Deadlock
- Deadlock Prevention
- Deadlock Avoidance
- Deadlock Detection
- An Integrated Deadlock Strategy
- Dining Philosophers Problem
- Unit -2 Memory
- Memory: Memory Management:
- Memory Management Requirements
- Memory Partitioning
- Paging
- Segmentation
- Virtual Memory:
- Hardware and Control Structures
- OS Software
- UNIX Memory Management
- Unit -3 Scheduling
- Uni-processor Scheduling:
- Types of Scheduling
- Scheduling
- Algorithms
- Traditional UNIX Scheduling
- Multiprocessor and Real-time Management:
- Multiprocessor Scheduling
- Thread Scheduling
- Real- Time Scheduling
- Unit -4 Input/Output and Files
- I/O Management and Disk Scheduling:
- I/O Devices
- Organization of the I/O Function
- OS Design Issues
- I/O Buffering
- Disk Scheduling
- RAID
- Disk cache
- File Management:
- Overview File Management
- File Organization
- File Directories
- File Sharing
- Record Blocking
- Secondary Storage Management
- Unit -5 Distributed System
- Distributed Processing, Client/Server and Clusters:
- Client/Server Computing
- Distributed Message Passing
- Remote Procedure Calls
- Clusters
- Main Reference Book:
- Stalling W, “Operating Systems”, 6th edition, Prentice Hall India
- Suggested Additional Reading:
- Silberschatz, A., Peter B. Galvin and Greg Gagne, “Operating System Principles”,
Wiley-Indian Edition, 8th Ed., 2009 - Tanenbaum A.S., “Modern Operating Systems”, 4th Edition, PHI, 2001
- Flynn I.M, “Understanding Operating Systems”, Cengage India Publication
- Bach M J, “The Design of UNIX Operating System”, Prentice Hall India, 1993.
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