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Operating Systems: Website and E-Learning Source

This document outlines the topics covered in 5 units on operating systems. Unit 1 defines operating systems and covers their structure, operations, processes, memory management, storage, protection, environments and system calls. Unit 2 discusses process management including scheduling, synchronization, and deadlocks. Unit 3 covers storage management techniques like swapping, paging, segmentation and virtual memory. Unit 4 describes file systems, structures, and allocation methods. Unit 5 focuses on protection goals, principles, access matrices and implementing security defenses. Recommended textbooks and additional resources are also provided.

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Operating Systems: Website and E-Learning Source

This document outlines the topics covered in 5 units on operating systems. Unit 1 defines operating systems and covers their structure, operations, processes, memory management, storage, protection, environments and system calls. Unit 2 discusses process management including scheduling, synchronization, and deadlocks. Unit 3 covers storage management techniques like swapping, paging, segmentation and virtual memory. Unit 4 describes file systems, structures, and allocation methods. Unit 5 focuses on protection goals, principles, access matrices and implementing security defenses. Recommended textbooks and additional resources are also provided.

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Operating Systems

Unit 1: Defining a Operating System - Clustered Systems - Operating-System Structure -


Operating-System Operations - Process Management - Memory Management - Storage
Management - Protection and Security - Computing Environments - Open-Source Operating
Systems - Operating system services - System Calls - Types of System Calls - System
Programs - Operating-System Structure - System Boot.
Unit-2: Process Management: Process concept – Process Scheduling - Operations on
Processes -Interprocess Communication - Communication in Client – Server Systems -
Threads - Multithreading Models - Basic Concepts – Scheduling Criteria – Scheduling
Algorithms - Process Synchronization - Critical section Problem - Peterson‟s Solution -
Synchronization hardware – Semaphores, classical problem of synchronization – System
model - Deadlock Characterization - Methods for Handling Deadlocks - Prevention,
Avoidance, and Detection – Recovery.

Unit 3: Storage management – Background- Swapping - Contiguous Memory Allocation -


Paging - Structure of the Page Table - Segmentation - virtual memory background - demand
paging - Copy-on-Write - page replacement and algorithms -

Unit 4: Storage management – File system - File concept - access methods - directory and
directory structure - - protection - File-System Structure - File-System Implementation -
Directory Implementation -Allocation Methods - Free-Space Management - Secondary
Storage structure - disk structure – disk attachment - Disk scheduling
Unit 5: Protection - Goals of Protection - Principles of Protection - Access Matrix -
Security - The Security Problem - Program Threats - System and Network Threats - User
Authentication – Implementing security defenses - Firewalling to Protect Systems and
Networks - Computer-Security Classifications.
Recommended Texts:
1) A. Silberschatz P.B. Galvin, G.Gagne, 2012, Operating System Concepts, 8th Edn.,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Reference Books
1) D.M. Dhamdhare , 2012, Operating Systems: A Concept Based Approach, 3rd
Edn.Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
2) A.S. Tanenbaum, H. Bos ,2014, Modern Operating Systems, 4th Edn, Prentice-
Hall of India, New Delhi.
Website and e-Learning Source
1) http://iit.qau.edu.pk/books/OS_8th_Edition.pdf

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