Syllabus of Andhra University BTech Information Technology - IT 3.1.6 - Operating Systems

Third year - First Semester

Instruction: 3 Periods & 1 Tut /week
Univ. Exam : 3 Hours

Sessional Marks: 30
Univ-Exam-Marks:70

Introduction: What IS OS; History of Operating Systems, Operating System Concepts, Operating Systems Structure

Processes: Introduction to Processes, Inter Processor Communication, Classical IPC Problems, Process Scheduling

Memory Management : Memory Management without Swapping or Paging, Swapping, Virtual Memory, Page Replacement Algorithms, Modeling paging algorithms, Design issues for paging systems, Segmentation

File Systems And Input/Output : Files, Directories, File system implementation, Security, Protection mechanism, Principles of I/O Software, Disk Management

Deadlocks: Resources, Deadlocks, The O-----ptical Algorithm, Deadlock Detection and Recovery, Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock Prevention, Other Issues

Case Study : Unix: Fundamental Concepts in Unix, MS – DOS: Fundamental Concepts in MS-DOS

Text Book:

Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Reference:

Applied Operating Systems Concepts by Avi Silberschatz, Peter Galvin, Grey Gagne