Course Course

21CSC202J Course
OPERATING SYSTEMS Category
Professional Core L T P C
Code Name 3 0 2 4
Pre-requisite Co- requisite Nil Progressive
Courses COA Courses Courses Nil
Course Offering Department Data Book / Codes / Standards

Course Learning Rationale (CLR): The purpose of learning this course is to: Program Outcomes (PO) Program
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CLR-1 : Outline the structure of OS and basic architectural components involved in OS design 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Outcomes
CLR-2 : Introduce the concept of deadlock and various memory management mechanism Condu
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Course Outcomes (CO): At the end of this course, learners will be able to: ms
CO-1: Use the appropriate concepts of operating system for resource utilization 3 3 2 - - - - - - - - - -
CO-2: Analyze the relevant process and thread concepts for solving synchronization problems 3 3 3 - - - - - - - - - -
CO-3: Exemplify different types of scheduling algorithms and deadlock mechanism. 3 3 3 - - - - - - - - - -
CO-4:
Experiment the performance of different algorithms used in management of memory, file and I/O and 3 3 3 - - - - - - - - - -
select the appropriate one.
CO-5:
Demonstrate different device and resource management techniques for memory utilization with 3 2 3 - - - - - - - - - -
security mechanisms

Unit-1 : Introduction, Computer-System Organization, Computer-System Architecture,

Operating-System Structure, Operating-System Operations, Process Management,
Memory Management, Storage Management, Protection and Security, Kernel Data
Structures, Computing Environments, Open-Source Operating Systems,
Operating-System Services, User and Operating-System Interface, System Calls,
Types of System Calls, System Programs, Operating-System Design and
Implementation, Operating-System Structure, Operating-System Debugging,
Operating-System Generation, System Boot

Unit-2 : PROCESS MANAGEMENT: Process Concept, Process Scheduling,

Operations on Processes, Interprocess Communication, Communication in
Client– Server Systems, Threads: Multicore Programming, Multithreading
Models, Thread Libraries, Implicit Threading, Threading Issues. Process
Synchronization: The Critical-Section Problem, Peterson’s Solution,
Synchronization Hardware, Mutex Locks, Semaphores, Classic Problems of
Synchronization, Monitors
Unit-3:CPU Scheduling: Basic Concepts, Scheduling Criteria, Scheduling
Algorithms, Thread Scheduling, Multiple-Processor Scheduling, Real-Time
CPU Scheduling. Deadlocks: System Model, Deadlock Characterization,
Methods for Handling Deadlocks, Deadlock Prevention, Deadlock Avoidance,
Deadlock Detection, Recovery from Deadlock

Unit-4 : MEMORY MANAGEMENT: Main Memory, Swapping, Contiguous Memory

Allocation, Segmentation, Paging, Structure of the Page Table. Virtual Memory:
Introduction, Demand Paging, Copy-on-Write, Page Replacement, Allocation of
Frames, Thrashing, Memory-Mapped Files, Allocating Kernel Memory. STORAGE
MANAGEMENT: Disk Structure, Disk Attachment, Disk Scheduling, Disk Management,
Swap-Space Management, RAID Structure. File-System Interface: File Concept,
Access Methods, Directory and Disk Structure, File-System Mounting, File Sharing,
Protection. .

PROTECTION AND SECURITY: Goals of Protection, Principles of Protection,

Unit-5:
Domain of Protection, Access Matrix, Implementation of the Access Matrix, Access
Control, Revocation of Access Rights, Capability-Based Systems, Language-Based
Protection, The Security Problem, Program Threats, System and Network Threats,
Cryptography as a Security Tool, User Authentication, Implementing Security Defenses,
Firewalling to Protect Systems and Networks, Computer-Security Classifications.
Lab 1: Operating system Installation, Basic Linux commands
Lab 2: Process Creation using fork() and Usage of getpid(), getppid(), wait() functions
Lab 3: Multithreading
Lab 4: Mutual Exclusion using semaphore and monitor
Lab 5: Reader-Writer problem
Lab 6: Dining Philosopher problem
Lab 7: Bankers Algorithm for Deadlock avoidance
Lab 8: FCFS and SJF Scheduling
Lab 9: Priority and Round robin scheduling
Lab 10: FIFO Page Replacement Algorithm
Lab 11: LRU and LFU Page Replacement Algorithm
Lab 12: Best fit and Worst fit memory management policies
Lab 13: Disk Scheduling algorithm
Lab 14: Sequential and Indexed file Allocation
Lab 15: File organization schemes for single level and two level directory

1. Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne, “Operating

System Concepts”, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pvt. Ltd, Tenth Edition, 2018
2. RamazElmasri, A. Gil Carrick, David Levine, “Operating Systems – A
Spiral Approach “, Tata McGraw Hill Edition, 2010
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/105/106105214/
3. Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere, “Operating Systems – A Concept Based
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/106/106106144/
Learning Approach”, Third Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Edition, 2019
Resources https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/102/106102132/
4. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, “Modern Operating Systems”, Fourth Edition,
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_cs44/preview
Global Edition, Pearson, 2015.
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/105/106105172/
5. William Stallings, “Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles”,
Pearson Education, Sixth Edition, 2018.
6. Charles Crowley, “Operating Systems: A Design-Oriented Approach”,
Tata McGraw Hill Education, 2017.

Learning Assessment
Continuous Learning Assessment (CLA)
Summative
Formative Life Long Learning
Bloom’s Final Examination
CLA-1 Average of unit test CLA-2 –
Level of Thinking (40% weightage)
(45%) (15%)
Theory Practice Theory Practice Theory Practice
Level 1 Remember 15% - - 15% 15% -
Level 2 Understand 25% - - 20% 25% -
Level 3 Apply 30% - - 25% 30% -
Level 4 Analyze 30% - - 25% 30% -
Level 5 Evaluate - - - 10% - -
Level 6 Create - - - 5% - -
 Total 100 % 100 % 100 %

Course Designers
Experts from Industry Experts from Higher Technical Institutions Internal Experts
Dr. T. Ruso, Senior Project Lead, 1. Dr.T.Sethukarasi, Professor and Head, Department of CSE,
1. Dr.M.Eliazer, SRMIST
HCL Technologies,Chennai RMK Engineering College
2. Dr.B.Jaison, Professor, Department of CSE,
2. Dr.K.Anitha, SRMIST
RMK Engineering College