CSC-203: Operating system

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, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall.

References:           Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 6th 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%