Syllabus Operating System - (BC03001011) Total Credits L + T + (PR/2) Assessment Pattern and Marks Total Marks C Theory Tutorial / Practical ESE (E) PA / CA (M) PA / CA (I) ESE (V) 4 70 30 20 30 150 Unit No. Content 1. Introduction : Computer System Overview, Operating System Objectives and Functions, The Evolution of Operating Systems, Major Achievements, Developments and Leading to Modern Operating Systems, Fault Tolerance, OS Design Consideration for Multiprocessor and Multicore, Traditional UNIX Systems, Modern UNIX Systems. (Chapter - 1) 2. Process and Threads Management : Processes : What is Process ? Process States, Process Description, Process Control, Execution of the Operating System. Threads : Processes and Threads, Multithreading, Types of Threads, Thread States. (Chapter - 2) 3. Concurrency and Deadlock : Concurrency : Principles of Concurrency, Mutual Exclusion : Hardware Support, Semaphores, Monitors, Message Passing, Readers / Writers Problem. Deadlock : Principal of Deadlock, Deadlock Prevention, Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock Detection, Dining Philosophers Problem. (Chapters - 3, 4) 4. Memory Management and Scheduling : Memory Management : Memory Management Requirements, Memory Partitioning, Paging, Segmentation Virtual Memory : Virtual Memory Terminology, Typical Memory Management Formats, Address Translation in a Paging System, Page Table Structure, TLB, Virtual Memory Implications, Fetch Policy, Placement Policy, Replacement Policy, Page Replacement Algorithms Scheduling : Types of Processor Scheduling, Scheduling Algorithms. (Chapters - 5, 6) 5. I/O and File Management : I/O Management : I/O Devices, Organization of the I/O Function, I/O Buffering, Disk Scheduling, RAID. File Management : File and File Systems, File System Architecture, File Organization and Access, File Directories, File Allocation Methods, Free Space Management. (Chapters - 7, 8)
