Computer and Operating Systems Structure
Basic Elements, Processor Registers, Instruction Execution, The Memory hierarchy, Cache Memory, VOCommunication Techniques, Introduction to Operating System, Mainframe Systems, Desktop Systems, Multiprocessor Systems, Distributed Systems, Clustered Systems, Real - Time Systems, Handheld Systems, Feature Migration, Computing Environments. System Structures: System Components, Operating - System Services, System Calls, System Programs , System Structure, VIrtual Machines, System Design and Implementation, System Generation
Process Management and Mutual Execution
Process, Process States, Process Description, Process Control, Execution of the Operating System, Security Issues, Processes and Threads, Symmetric Multiprocessing(SMP), Micro kernels, CPU Scheduler and Scheduling. Principles of Concurrency, Mutual Exclusion : Hardware Support, Semaphores , Monitors , Message Passing, Readers/Writes Problem.
Deadlock and Memory Management
Principles ofDeadloc Deadlock Prevention, Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock Detection, An Integrated Deadlock Strategy, Dining Philosophers Problem. Memory Management: Swapping, Contiguous Memory Allocation, Paging, Segmentation, Segmentation with Paging, Demand Paging, Process Creation, Page Replacement, Allocation ofFrames, Thrashing
File System and Secondary Storage
File Concept, Access Methods, Directory Structure, File System Mounting, File Sharing, Protection, File -System Structure, File - System Implementation, Directory Implementation, Allocation Methods, Free-Space Management, Disk Structure, Disk Scheduling, Disk Management.
Computer Security and Case study of Linux Operating system
The Security Problem, User Authentication, Program Threats, System Threats. Linux System Linux history , Design Principles, Kernel modules, Process , management, scheduling, Memory management, File systems, Input and output, Inter-process communications
Question paper pattern:
• The question paper will have ten questions.
• Each full question willbe for 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
Textbooks:
1. Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, "Operating System Concepts" JohnWiley, Sixth Edition, 2004.
2. William Stallings, "Operating System lntern.als and Design Principles" Pearson, 6thedition, 2012
Reference Books:
1. Chakraborty , "Operating Systems" Jaico Publishing House, 2011.
2. DhananjayM. Dhamdhere, "Operating Systems-AConcept- BasedApproach", Tata McGraw- Hill, 3rd Edition, 2012.