OPERATING SYSTEMS | MAKAUT| BCA |FOURTH SEM

Module

Contents

Hours

I

Computer H/w review (Processors, Memory, Devices, I/O Bus), Operating System Basic Concepts, Architecture of OS, Introduction of Different Types of Operating System (Mainframe, Server Side OS Multiprocessor OS, Embedded OS, Real Time OS, Sensor Node OS, Smart Card OS), Virtualization, Free and Open Source Operating System.

03

II

Operating System Architecture (Monolithic System, Layered System, Microkernel, Client Server Model, System Calls, Linker and Loader, Booting of an Operating System.

02

III

Process Management: Process, Process State Diagram, Process Control Block, Process Scheduling Criteria, Process Scheduling Algorithms, Types of Schedulers, Threads, Types of Thread, Thread Scheduling, Inter Process Communication , Race Condition, Critical Region, Use of Semaphore, Mutex, and Monitor, Classical Problems on Synchronization.

18

IV

Deadlock: Deadlock Characterization, Methods of Handling Deadlock, Deadlock Prevention and Avoidance, Deadlock Detection and Recovery from Deadlock.

04

V

Memory Management: Continuous Memory Allocation, Paging, Swapping, Virtual memory: Paging, Page Table Structure, Page Table for Large Memory, Page Replacement Algorithms, Page Size, Page Fault Handling, Segmentation.

14

VI

File management: File Naming, File Structures, File Types, Single Level and Hierarchical OS, Shared File, Disk Management and Related Algorithms.

04

VII

Security and Protection: Security Threats and Attackers, Controlling Access to Resources (Protection Domain, Access Control List,) Exploiting Software ( Buffer Overflow Attack, Integer Overflow Attack, Dangling Pointer, Null Pointer Dereference Attack), Malware (Worm, virus and Trojan).

08

VIII

Distributed Operating System: Goal of Distributed OS, Remoter Procedure call, Name resolution, Clock Synchronization.

04