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This document outlines the course units and experiments for the operating systems course CS6401 and lab CS6413. The five units of CS6401 cover operating system overview, process management, storage management, I/O systems, and a case study of Linux. The 12 listed experiments for CS6413 involve implementing CPU scheduling algorithms, file allocation strategies, semaphores, file organization techniques, deadlock avoidance/detection algorithms, page replacement algorithms, shared memory, paging, and threads. The course materials include a textbook and additional references.

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This document outlines the course units and experiments for the operating systems course CS6401 and lab CS6413. The five units of CS6401 cover operating system overview, process management, storage management, I/O systems, and a case study of Linux. The 12 listed experiments for CS6413 involve implementing CPU scheduling algorithms, file allocation strategies, semaphores, file organization techniques, deadlock avoidance/detection algorithms, page replacement algorithms, shared memory, paging, and threads. The course materials include a textbook and additional references.

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CS6401- OPERATING SYSTEMS

UNIT I OPERATING SYSTEMS OVERVIEW 9


Computer System Overview-Basic Elements, Instruction Execution, Interrupts, Memory Hierarchy, Cache Memory, Direct
Memory Access, Multiprocessor and Multicore Organization. Operating system overview-objectives and functions,
Evolution of Operating System - Computer System Organization- Operating System Structure and Operations- System
Calls, System Programs, OS Generation and System Boot.

UNIT II PROCESS MANAGEMENT 9


Processes-Process Concept, Process Scheduling, Operations on Processes, Interprocess Communication; Threads-
Overview, Multicore Programming, Multithreading Models; Windows 7 - Thread and SMP Management. Process
Synchronization - Critical Section Problem, Mutex Locks, Semophores, Monitors; CPU Scheduling and Deadlocks.

UNIT III STORAGE MANAGEMENT 9


Main Memory-Contiguous Memory Allocation, Segmentation, Paging, 32 and 64 bit architecture Examples; Virtual
Memory- Demand Paging, Page Replacement, Allocation, Thrashing; Allocating Kernel Memory, OS Examples.

UNIT IV I/O SYSTEMS 9


Mass Storage Structure- Overview, Disk Scheduling and Management; File System Storage-File Concepts, Directory and
Disk Structure, Sharing and Protection; File System Implementation- File System Structure, Directory Structure, Allocation
Methods, Free Space Management, I/O Systems.

UNIT V CASE STUDY 9


Linux System- Basic Concepts;System Administration-Requirements for Linux System Administrator, Setting up a LINUX
Multifunction Server, Domain Name System, Setting Up Local Network Services; Virtualization- Basic Concepts, Setting
Up Xen,VMware on Linux Host and Adding Guest OS.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOK:
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1. Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 9
Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2012.

REFERENCES:
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1. William Stallings, Operating Systems Internals and Design Principles, 7 Edition, Prentice Hall,
2011.
2. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2001.
3. Charles Crowley, Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach, Tata McGraw Hill
Education, 1996.
4. D M Dhamdhere, Operating Systems: A Concept-Based Approach, Second Edition, Tata
McGraw-Hill Education, 2007.
5. http://nptel.ac.in/.

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CS6413 - OPERATING SYSTEMS LABORATORY

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:
1. Basics of UNIX commands.
2. Shell Programming.
3. Implement the following CPU scheduling algorithms a) Round Robin b)
SJF c) FCFS d) Priority
4. Implement all file allocation strategies
a) Sequential b) Indexed c) Linked
5. Implement Semaphores
6. Implement all File Organization Techniques
a) Single level directory b) Two level c) Hierarchical d) DAG
7. Implement Bankers Algorithm for Dead Lock Avoidance
8. Implement an Algorithm for Dead Lock Detection
9. Implement e all page replacement algorithms
a) FIFO b) LRU c) LFU
10. Implement Shared memory and IPC
11. Implement Paging Technique of memory management.
12. Implement Threading & Synchronization Applications

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