OPERATING SYSTEMS

Paper Code: 
CSC 214
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This module aims at making students learn about basic concepts of operating systems.

 

9.00

Operating System (An Overview): Hardware, Software, Categories of Software.

Operating System Concept:- Introduction, Need, Task, Characteristics, Classification /types: Batch system, Multiprogrammed Batched system, Time – Sharing System, Personal Computer System, Parallel System, Distributed System, Real-Time Systems.

 

9.00

Process Management: Process Concept, Process Scheduling, Operation on Processes.

CPU Scheduling: Basic Concepts, Scheduling Criteria (CPU Utilization, Throughput, Turnaround, Waiting & Response Times), Scheduling Algorithms (FCFS, SJF, Priority, Round-Robin)

 

10.00

Deadlocks: System Model, Deadlock Characterization, Methods for Handling Deadlocks, Deadlock Prevention, Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock Detection, and Recovery from Deadlock.                                                                                    

9.00

Memory Management: Background, Logical versus Physical Address space, Swapping, Contiguous allocation (fragmentation), Paging, Segmentation.Virtual Memory: Background, Demand Paging, Page Replacement, Page-replacement Algorithms (FIFO, Optimal, LRU, and Counting)                 

 

8.00

File Management: File Concepts (Operations & Attributes), Access Methods, Directory Structure, File System Structure, Allocation Methods (Contiguous Allocation, Linked Allocation, Indexed Allocation).

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. A. Silbersachatz and P.Galvin, “Operating System Concepts”, Addison-Wesley, 7th Ed., 2005

 

REFERENCES: 

1.      Tanenbaum, “Operating Systems”, PHI, 4th Edition, 2000

2.      Madnick E., Donovan J., “Operating Systems”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001

3.      Achyut S. Godbole,  “Operating Systems”, Tata Mc-Graw Hill Publishing Company Limited 2000.

4.      Gary Nutt, “Operating System A Modern Perspective (Second Edition)”, Pearson     Education 2000.

 

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