| Objectives |
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provide basic understanding of operating system and related design issues. |
| References/Textbooks |
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William
Stalling, “Operating Systems”, Prentice Hall, 1995.
Silberschatz,
Abraham et. al., “Operating System Concepts”, 4th ed., Addison Wesley,
1994.
Deitel,
Harvey M. , “An introduction to Operating Systems”, 4th ed., Addison
Wesley, 1984.
Tannenbaum,
A.S., “Modern Operating Systems”, Prentice Hall, 1992.
Milenkovic,
Milan, “Operating Systems : Concepts and Design”, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill,
1992.
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| Contents |
Chapter
1 Operating System Overview
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Objectives and Functions. The evolution
of operating systems. Example systems.
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Process states, description and
control. Processes and threads.
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Chapter
2 Concurrency
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Principles. Mutual exclusion -
software and hardware approaches. Semaphores, monitors, message passing.
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Principles of deadlock, prevention,
detection, avoidance.
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Chapter
3 Memory Management
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Principles. Requirements and design
of memory management system. Program loading and linking.
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Virtual Memory: locality, page
table, translation lookaside buffer, segmentation, software implementation,
load control.
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Chapter
4 Scheduling
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Types of scheduling. Queuing in
scheduling.
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Scheduling algorithms. Priority
control.
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Introduction to multiprocessor
and real-time scheduling.
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Chapter
5 I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
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Organization of the I/O function. Direct memory
access.
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Design issues. I/O buffering. Disk I/O. Disk
cache. Example systems.
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Chapter
6 File Management
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Overview. File management systems. File organization
and access, file directories.
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Sharing of files. Record blocking. Secondary
storage management. Example systems.
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| Revised
Lecture Notes/Lecture Slides |
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| Revised
Tutorial Questions and Solutions |
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Not available at this moment.
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| Revised
Assignment Questions and Solutions |
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| Supplements |
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