Course Title: Operating system
Pre-Requisite: Cos 1, Cos 2
Credit: 3 Units
Course Description
Instructional Methodologies
1. Lectures
2. Exercises
3. Quizzes
4. Case Study
5. Research
6. Group Project
7. Baby Thesis
8. Term Exam
IV. Grading System
Attendance 10%
Seatwork/Assignments 20% (Case Study/Baby Thesis)
Quizzes 40%
Term Exams 30%
Grade=((Total x 2)+Term Exam) /3
Final Grade=Prelim Grade+Midterm Grade + Final Grade----------------------PRELIM-----------------------
I. Introduction
a. What is an operating system
b. Batch system
c. Time-sharing system
d. Personal Computer system
e. Parallel system
f. Real-time system
g. Distributed system
II. Computer System Structure
a. Computer system operation
b. I/O Structure
c. Storage structure
d. Storage Hierarchy
e. Hardware protection
f. General system architecture
III. OS Structure
a. System components
b. Operating system services
c. System calls
d. System programs
e. System structure
f. Virtual machines
g. System design and implementation
h. System generation
IV. Process
a. Process control
b. Process scheduling
c. Operation on process
d. Cooperating process
e. Interprocess communication
V. Thread
a. Overview
b. Benefits
c. User and kernel
d. Multithreading models
e. Solaris 2 threads
VI. CPU Scheduling
a. Basic concepts
b. Scheduling criteria
c. Scheduling algorithms
d. Multiple processor scheduling
e. Real-time scheduling
f. Thread scheduling
g. Algorithms
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VII. Process Synchronization
a. Background
b. Critical-section problem
c. Two-task solution
d. Synchronization problems
e. Semaphores
f. Classical Synchronization problems
g. Monitors
h. OS Synchronization
VIII. Deadlocks
a. System model
b. Deadlock for handling
c. Methods for handling
d. Deadlock prevention
e. Deadlock avoidance
f. Deadlock detection
g. Recovery from deadlock
IX. Memory Management
a. Background
b. Swapping
c. Contigous memory allocation
d. Paging
e. Segmentation
f. Segmentation with paging
X. Virtual memory
a. Background
b. Demand paging
c. Page replacement
d. Allocation of frames
e. Thrashing
f. Operating system examples
g. Other considerations
XI. File Structure
a. File concepts
b. Access methods
c. Directory structure
d. Protection
e. File-system structure
f. Allocation methods
g. Free-space management
h. Directory implementation
i. Efficiency and performance
j. Recovery
XII. I/O system
a. Overview
b. I/O Hardware
c. Application to interface
d. Kernel I/O Subsystem
e. I/O request handling
f. Performance
XIII. Mass Storage
a. Disk structure
i. Disk Scheduling
ii. Disk Management
iii. Swap-management
iv. Disk Reliability
v. Stable-storage implementation
vi. Tertiary Structure
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XIV. Network Structures
a. Background
b. Network types
c. Communication
d. Comm. Process
e. Robustness
f. Design issues
g. Network examples
XV. Distributed Communication
a. Sockets
b. Remote procedure Calls
c. Remote Method invocation
d. COBRA
e. Object registration
XVI. Distributed Coordination
a. Event Ordering
b. Mutaul exclusion
c. Deadlosk handling
d. Election algorithms
XVII. Distributed File System
a. Background
b. Naming and transparency
c. Remote access
d. State full vs. stales services
e. File Replication
f. Example of System NFS
XVIII. Protection
a. Goal protection
b. Dominion of protection
c. Access matrix
d. Implementation of acces matrix
e. Revocation of access rights
f. Lanaguage based protection
XIX. Security
a. The security probkem
b. Authentication
c. Program threats
d. System threat
e. Threat modeling
f. Encryption
g. Computer security classification
h. An example security model windows NT
XX. The Linux System
a. History
b. Design
c. Kernel modules
d. Process mgnt.
e. Scheduling
f. Mem. Mgnt.
g. Files system
h. I/O
i. Interprocess com.
j. Net. Struct.
k. Security
XXI. Windows 2000
a. History
b. Design prin.
c. Syste. Comp.
d. Environment subsystem
e. Networking
f. Programmer interface
XXII. Apple Macintosh OS
a. History
b. Design Principles
c. Kernel Modules
d. Process Mgnt.
e. Scheduling
f. Memory mgnt.
g. File Systems
h. I/O
i. Interprocess comm..
j. Network structures
k. security
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