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Operating Systems: Credits: 4 Credits Course Coordinator: V.V.Subrahmanyam

This 4 credit course on Operating Systems taught by V.V. Subrahmanyam covers topics ranging from basic to advanced concepts in operating systems including process management, scheduling, memory management, protection and security, distributed systems, real-time operating systems, and mobile operating systems. The course objectives are to understand design and implementation of uni-processor and multi-processor operating systems, functions like process management and scheduling, deadlock issues and solutions, distributed system architecture, security issues and protection mechanisms for distributed environments. The syllabus is divided into 9 units covering these topics plus references for further reading.

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Operating Systems: Credits: 4 Credits Course Coordinator: V.V.Subrahmanyam

This 4 credit course on Operating Systems taught by V.V. Subrahmanyam covers topics ranging from basic to advanced concepts in operating systems including process management, scheduling, memory management, protection and security, distributed systems, real-time operating systems, and mobile operating systems. The course objectives are to understand design and implementation of uni-processor and multi-processor operating systems, functions like process management and scheduling, deadlock issues and solutions, distributed system architecture, security issues and protection mechanisms for distributed environments. The syllabus is divided into 9 units covering these topics plus references for further reading.

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Operating Systems

Credits: 4 Credits

Course Coordinator: V.V.Subrahmanyam

OBJECTIVES

This course basically covers the topics ranging from basics to advanced and current topics of Operating Systems.
Identify the general issues of design and implementation of uni-processor and multiprocessor and modern operating
systems.
To understand all the functions of OS like Process Management, Scheduling Management, Memory Management,
Protection and Security etc..
To understand the deadlock and shared memory issues and their solutions in distributed environments.
To get a comprehensive knowledge of the architecture of distributed systems.
To know the security issues and protection mechanisms for distributed environments.
To get a preliminary knowledge in Multiprocessor Operating Systems, Real Time OS, Embedded Systems and Mobile
Operating Systems.

SYLLABUS
UNIT - 1
Overview of OS Abstract Views of OS, Goals of OS, Operation of an OS, Design Approaches
Layered, Kernel-Based, Virtual Machine, Functions of an Operating System Types of OS Interrupt
System Call, Introduction to Advanced Operating Systems (Real Time OS, Distributed OS,
Multiprocessor OS, Embedded Systems, Database OS, Mobile OS), Issues in Distributed OS,
Communication Primitives (The Message Passing Model, Remote Procedure Call, Design Issues of
Remote Procedure Call)
UNIT 2
Process Management Concept of Process, Process States, Process Description, Process control,
Threads, Symmetric Multiprocessing, Microkernels, Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and
Synchronization Semaphores, Monitors, Message Passing, Reader Writers problem, ProducerConsumer Problem, Language Mechanisms for Synchronization Axiomatic Verification of Parallel
Programs Distributed Mutual Exclusion Non-Token Based Algorithms, Lamports Algorithm, The
Ricart Agrawala Algorithm, Token-based Algorithms.
UNIT 3
Deadlocks Models of Deadlocks (The Single Unit Request Model, The AND Request Model, The OR
request model, The AND-OR request Model, The P-out of Q Request Model - Deadlock Vs Starvation
Deadlock Prevention Deadlock Avoidance Deadlock Detection Distributed and Centralized
Deadlock Detection, Agreement Protocols.
UNIT -4
Scheduling Management Uniprocessor Scheduling, Multiprocessor and Real-time Scheduling, NonPreemptive and Preemptive Policies, Real-time Scheduling - LINUX and WINDOWS scheduling,
Performance Analysis of Scheduling Policies Scheduling in Distributed Systems - issues in load
distributing - components of a load distributing algorithm - stability - load distributing algorithm performance comparison - selecting a suitable load sharing algorithm - requirements for load
distributing -task migration and associated issues.

UNIT - 5
Memory Management
Paging Segmentation Paged Segmentation Segmentation with Paging - Virtual Memory - Demand
Paging - Page Replacement Policies - Shared Pages - Distributed Shared Memory - Algorithms for
Implementing Distributed Shared Memory Memory Coherence and Protocols Design Issues.
UNIT -6
Failure Recovery and Fault tolerance: introduction- basic concepts - classification of failures backward and forward error recovery, backward error recovery- recovery in concurrent systems consistent set of check points - synchronous and asynchronous check pointing and recovery.
UNIT - 7
Protection and Security Overview of Security and Protection, Preliminaries, the access matrix model
and its implementations.-safety in matrix model- Advanced Models of Protection - The Take-grant
Model, Bell LaPadula Model Lattice Model of Information Flow.
UNIT - 8
Multiprocessor Operating System - structures of multiprocessor operating system, operating system
design issues- threads- process synchronization and scheduling.
UNIT 9
Introduction to Network OS: Preliminaries
RTOS : Introduction to Real time systems and Real Time Operating Systems - characteristics of realtime operating systems - classification of real time operating systems - services, goals, structure features of RTOS - Typical Real Time Application - Hard Vs Soft Real Time Systems - a Reference
Model of Real Time Systems - Processors and Resources, architectures of real-time operating systems micro kernels and monolithic kernels - tasks in RTOS - applications of real time systems, RTOS for
Embedded Systems
Mobile OS: Operating Systems for Handheld Devices - OS Configurations Architecture - Memory
Management - User Interface and Communication for Win CE, Palm OS and Symbian OS.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
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D.M.Dhamdhere, Operating Sytems, A Concept-Based Approach, Second Edition, Tata


Mc Graw Hill, 2006.
William Stallings, Operating Sytems, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education, 2003
Mukesh Singhal, Niranjan G.Shivaratri, Advanced concepts in operating systems:
Distributed, Database and multiprocessor operating systems, TMH, 2001.
Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Modern operating system, PHI, 2003.
Pradeep K.Sinha, Distributed operating system-Concepts and Design, PHI, 2003.
Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Distributed operating system, Pearson education, 2003.

REFERENCE COURSE MATERIAL


1.MCS-041 (OPERATING SYTEMS)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

WEBSITE REFERENCES

RELEVANT VIDEOS

ASSIGNMENTS

HANDOUTS / SLIDES USED FOR THE PRESENTATIONS

NEWS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

EMAIL: vvsubrahmanyam@ignou.ac.in
129, School of Computer and Information
Sciences (SOCIS),
C-Block, First Floor, IGNOU Academic
Complex,IGNOU,
Maidangarhi, New Delhi 110068. Tel: +91-

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