Operating Systems

Course Title: Operating Systems

Course no: CSC-203                                                 Full Marks: 60+20+20

Credit hours: 3                                                          Pass Marks: 24+8+8

Nature of course: Theory (3 Hrs.) + Lab (3 Hrs.)

Course Synopsis: Fundamental concepts of uniprocessor operating systems. Evolution process management, Memory management, File systems, I/O processing.

Goal: This course introduces fundamental concepts of contemporary uniprocessor operating systems.

Course contents:

Unit 1: 6 Hrs.

1.1. Historical background: Operating system evolution, hardware review, operating system structure. Overview of operating system: batch system, multiprogramming, time-sharing, real-time, mainframe operating systems, personal computer operating systems, system calls.

Unit 2: 14 Hrs.

2.1. Process management: Process creation, process termination, process states, attributes; thread creation, termination, process scheduling.

2.2. Interprocess communication and synchronization: race conditions, critical regions, mutual exclusion, busy waiting, sleep and wakeup, semaphores, monitors, message passing, classical IPC problems and deadlock.

Unit 3: 13 Hrs.

3.1. Memory management: Absolute and relocable partition, multiprogramming, swapping, overlays, virtual memory, paging, page replacements algorithms, segmentation, segmentation with paging.

3.2. File systems: file system interface, file system implementation.

Unit 4: 12 Hrs.

4.1. Device management: I/O hardware and software, software layers.

4.2. Disk management: Disk structure, Disk scheduling, error handling and formatting, RAID, stable storage management.

4.3. Case studies (Linux and Window 2000)

Laboratory works: Small programming assignments of process creation, termination, deletion, thread creation, terminations, signals handling, process synchronization, process communication, classical IPC problems, file system and I/O handling.

Textbooks: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 2^nd Edition, Prentice-Hall.

References: Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 6^th Edition, Addition Wesley.

Homework

Assignments: Homework assignments covering lecture materials will be given throughout the semester.

Computer Usage: Unix or Linux base PC or workstation.

Prerequisites: C, Data structures and Computer Organization.

Category Content: Science Aspect: 70%

Design Aspect: 30%