| Course Name | Operating Systems |
| Course Code | 15CSE213 |
| Program | B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering |
| Semester | Four |
| Year Taught | 2019 |
Introduction to Operating Systems: Overview – Types of systems – Computer system operations – Hardware Protection – Operating systems services – System calls – System structure – Virtual machines. Process Management: Process concepts – Process scheduling – Operations on Process – Cooperating process – Interprocess communication – Multithreading models – Threading issues – Thread types – CPU scheduling –scheduling algorithms.
Process Synchronization: Critical section problem – synchronization hardware – Semaphores – Classical problems of synchronization – Critical regions – Monitors – Deadlocks – Deadlock characterization – Methods of handling deadlocks – Deadlock prevention – Avoidance – Detection and recovery.
Storage Management: Memory management – Swapping – Contiguous memory allocation. Paging – Segmentation – Segmentation with Paging – Virtual memory – Demand paging – Process creation – page replacement – Thrashing. File Systems: Directory structure – Directory implementation – Disk scheduling. Case study: Threading concepts in Operating systems, Kernel structures.
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