Winter Semester 2020-21

Lecture: Operating Systems

Content

Introduction to Operating Systems (OS) – Role, purpose and design issues
Processes and Threads – OS structures, process control, abstractions, kernel/user modes and operations, context switching, interrupts
Inter-Process Communication – Message passing IPC, RPC, layers, interfaces, hierarchies
Coordination: Deadlocks – Process coordination, critical sections, deadlock characterization, deadlock detection and recovery, deadlock avoidance
Scheduling/Resource Management – Task ordering, preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling, schedulers and policies, OS implementations
Concurrency: Races, Mutual Exclusions – Critical sections, races, spin locks, synchronization
Programming Abstractions: Semaphores – Semaphores, Monitors
Memory Management – Storage structures, management/replacements approaches, virtual memory, paging, caching, segmentation
I/O – Device management, drivers, segmentation, interrupt handling, DMA
File systems – File systems requirements, design and implementation, file structures, directories, naming, partitions, virtual file systems
Fault Tolerance/Resilience – Fault types, fault handling approaches, reliable message delivery, OS reliability and availability, security issues
Embedded/RT OS – Memory/disk/performance management, recovery, fault-tolerances, real-time aspects
Distributed OS – Distributed computation and communication abstractions, synchronization, coordination, consistency
Virtual Machines – Purpose and types of virtualization, virtual file systems, Hypervisors

Literature

_{Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (v0.92); Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau & Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau; Arpaci-Dusseau Books}

_{Modern Operating Systems, 4th Edition; Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Herbert Bos; Pearson; ISBN-13: 978-0133591620}

_{Operating System Concepts, 9th Edition; Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne; John Wiley & Sons; ISBN-13: 978-1118093757}

Winter Semester 2020-21

Lecture: Operating Systems

Content

Literature

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