INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEM

(OPEN ELECTIVE)
(Effective from the academic year 2018 -2019)
SEMESTER – VII
Course Code 18CS654 CIE Marks 40
Number of Contact Hours/Week 3:0:0 SEE Marks 60
Total Number of Contact Hours 40 Exam Hours 03
CREDITS –3
Course Learning Objectives: This course (18CS654) will enable students to:
• Explain the fundamentals of operating system
• Comprehend multithreaded programming, process management, memory management and
storage management.
• Familier with various types of operating systems
Module – 1 Teaching
Hours
Introduction: What OS do, Computer system organization, architecture, structure, Operations, 08
Process, memory and storage management, Protection and security, Distributed systems,
Special purpose systems, computing environments.
System Structure: OS Services, User OSI, System calls, Types of system calls, System
programs, OS design and implementation, OS structure, Virtual machines, OS generation,
system boot
Textbook1: Chapter 1, 2
RBT: L1, L2
Module – 2
Process Concept: Overview, Process scheduling, Operations on process, IPC, Examples in 08
IPC, Communication in client-server systems.
Multithreaded Programming: Overview, Models, Libraries, Issues, OS Examples
Textbook1: Chapter 3,4
RBT: L1, L2
Module – 3
Process Scheduling: Basic concept, Scheduling criteria, Algorithm, multiple processor 08
scheduling, thread scheduling, OS Examples, Algorithm Evaluation.
Synchronization: Background, the critical section problem, Petersons solution,
Synchronization hardware, Semaphores, Classic problems of synchronization, Monitors,
Synchronization examples, Atomic transactions
Textbook1: Chapter 5, 6
RBT: L1, L2
Module – 4
Deadlocks: System model, Deadlock characterization, Method of handling deadlock, 08
Deadlock prevention, Avoidance, Detection, Recovery from deadlock
Memory management strategies: Background, swapping, contiguous memory allocation,
paging, structure of page table, segmentation,
Textbook1: Chapter 7, 8
RBT: L1, L2
Module – 5
Virtual Memory management: Background, Demand paging, Copy-on-write, Page 08
replacement, allocation of frames, Trashing, Memory mapped files, Allocating Kernel
memory, Operating system examples
File system: File concept, Access methods, Directory structure, File system mounting, File
sharing, protection
Textbook1: Chapter 9, 10
RBT: L1, L2
Course outcomes: The students should be able to:
• Explain the fundamentals of operating system
• Comprehend process management, memory management and storage management.
• Familiar with various types of operating systems
Question Paper Pattern:
• The question paper will have ten questions.
• Each full Question consisting of 20 marks
• There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
• Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
• The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
1. A. Silberschatz, P B Galvin, G Gagne, Operating systems, 7th edition, John Wiley and sons,.
Reference Books:
1. William Stalling,"Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles", Pearson Education, 1st
Edition, 2018.
2. Andrew S Tanenbaum, Herbert BOS, "Modern Operating Systems", Pearson Education, 4th
Edition, 2016