OS

Subject : Operating System ....


Module :

1  Operating System Overview          
Operating System Objectives and Functions. Evolution of Operating
Systems,  Characteristics of Modern Operating Systems, Basic Concepts :
Processes,   Files,  System calls,  Shell, Layered structure  v/s Monolithic
Structure of Operating System. Introduction to Distributed OS,  RTOS,
Mobile OS.

2  Process and process scheduling. 
Process description, PCB, Threads, Thread management; process and thread
Process Scheduling : Types,  comparative assessment of different
scheduling algorithms.

3 Process Concurrency:
Principles  of  Concurrency;  Mutual  Exclusion-  Hardware  approaches;
Mutual  Exclusion-  Software  Support;  Semaphores;  Monitors,  Message
Passing; Readers/Writers Problem.
Deadlock  and  Starvation:  Principles  of  Deadlock,  Deadlock  Prevention;
Deadlock  Avoidance,  Deadlock  Detection,  An  Integrated  Deadlock
Strategy; Dining Philosophers Problem;


4  Memory Management  
Memory  management  Requirements.  Memory  Partitioning;  Virtual
memory;  Paging;  Segmentation;  Design  and  implementation  issues  in
paging  and  segmentation;  page  replacement  algorithms;  page  fault
handling; working set model

5  I/O Management and Disk Scheduling. 
I/O  Devices.  Organization  of the  I/O  Function;  Operating  System  Design
Issues;  I/O  Buffering,  Disk  Scheduling  and  disk  scheduling  algorithms;
RAID; Disk cache

6  File Management.  
Overview;  File  Organization;  File  Directories;  File  Sharing;  Record
Blocking; Secondary Storage Management; UNIX File system

7  Case Studies:  
Overview  of  Linux  operating  system,  Process  and  thread  management,
Scheduling,  concurrency  control  mechanisms,  Memory  management  and
I/O management in Linux.
Overview of Windows operating system:  Process and thread  management,
Scheduling,  concurrency  control  mechanisms,  Memory  management  and
I/O management in windows.


Notes :

1) Operating Systems With UNIX (TECH MAX).pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/?58qsau8x8b3roda

2)Operating System.pdf 
http://www.mediafire.com/?ybaqsgu20fq9r7t