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CS3451 - Introduction to Operating Systems

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• To understand the basics and functions of operating systems.
• To understand processes and threads
• To analyze scheduling algorithms and process synchronization.
• To understand the concept of deadlocks.
• To analyze various memory management schemes.
• To be familiar with I/O management and file systems.
• To be familiar with the basics of virtual machines and Mobile OS like iOS and Android.

UNIT I-INTRODUCTION
Computer System - Elements and organization; Operating System Overview - Objectives and
Functions - Evolution of Operating System; Operating System Structures – Operating System
Services - User Operating System Interface - System Calls – System Programs - Design and
Implementation - Structuring methods.
UNIT II-PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Processes - Process Concept - Process Scheduling - Operations on Processes - Inter-process
Communication; CPU Scheduling - Scheduling criteria - Scheduling algorithms: Threads -
Multithread Models – Threading issues; Process Synchronization - The Critical-Section problem -
Synchronization hardware – Semaphores – Mutex - Classical problems of synchronization -
Monitors; Deadlock - Methods for handling deadlocks, Deadlock prevention, Deadlock avoidance,
Deadlock detection, Recovery from deadlock.
UNIT III-MEMORY MANAGEMENT
Main Memory - Swapping - Contiguous Memory Allocation – Paging - Structure of the Page Table
- Segmentation, Segmentation with paging; Virtual Memory - Demand Paging – Copy on Write -
Page Replacement - Allocation of Frames –Thrashing.
UNIT IV-STORAGE MANAGEMENT
Mass Storage system – Disk Structure - Disk Scheduling and Management; File-System Interface
- File concept - Access methods - Directory Structure - Directory organization - File system
mounting - File Sharing and Protection; File System Implementation - File System Structure -
Directory implementation - Allocation Methods - Free Space Management; I/O Systems – I/O
Hardware, Application I/O interface, Kernel I/O subsystem.
UNIT V-VIRTUAL MACHINES AND MOBILE OS
Virtual Machines – History, Benefits and Features, Building Blocks, Types of Virtual Machines
and their Implementations, Virtualization and Operating-System Components; Mobile OS - iOS
and Android.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES: At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
CO1 : Analyze various scheduling algorithms and process synchronization.
CO2 : Explain deadlock prevention and avoidance algorithms.
CO3 : Compare and contrast various memory management schemes.
CO4 : Explain the functionality of file systems, I/O systems, and Virtualization
CO5 : Compare iOS and Android Operating Systems
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne, “Operating System Concepts”‖, 10th
Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2018.
2. Andrew S Tanenbaum, "Modern Operating Systems", Pearson, 5th Edition,
2022 New Delhi.
REFERENCES:
1. Ramaz Elmasri, A. Gil Carrick, David Levine, “ Operating Systems – A Spiral Approach”, Tata
McGraw Hill Edition, 2010.
2. William Stallings, "Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles", 7th Edition, Prentice
Hall, 2018.
3. Achyut S.Godbole, Atul Kahate, “Operating Systems”, McGraw Hill Education, 2016.

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