University of Gujrat

Department of Information Technology

Title Operating System

Code IT-205

Credit Hours 3.0

Prerequisite DLD or Computer Architecture, Data Structures

Instructor

The course will start with a brief historical perspective of the

Aims and Objectives
evolution of operating systems over the last fifty years, and then
cover the major components of most operating systems. This
discussion will cover the tradeoffs that can be made between
performance and functionality during the design and
implementation of an operating system. Particular emphasis will be
given to three major OS subsystems: process management
(processes, threads, CPU scheduling, synchronization, and
deadlock), memory management (segmentation, paging, swapping),
file systems, and operating system support for distributed systems.

Text Books 1. Operating Systems Concepts, xxx edition, by Silberschatz,

Galvin and Gagne

Reference Books 1. Operating Systems by William Stallings

2. Linux All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, by Naba
Barkakti

Assessment Criteria Sessional 25% Mid 25% Final 50%

 Quizzes 10%

Assignments 5%

Project/Presentation 10%

Sixteen-week lecture plan

Week Lecture Topic

What Operating Systems Do, Computer-System Organization, Computer-
1 1,2 System Architecture, Operating-System Structure, Operating-System
Operations, Process Management, Memory Management, Storage Management,
Protection and Security, Distributed Systems, Special-Purpose Systems,
2 3,4
Computing Environments
Operating System Services, User Operating System Interface, System Calls,
Types of System Calls, System Programs, Operating System Design and
3 5,6
Implementation, Operating System Structure, Virtual Machines, Operating
System Generation, System Boot
Process Concept, Process Scheduling, Operations on Processes, Cooperating
4 7,8
Processes
5 9,10 Inter-process Communication, Communication in Client-Server Systems
Software Requirement, Functional and nonfunctional requirement, Software
6 11,12
requirement document
Basic Concepts, Scheduling Criteria, Scheduling Algorithms, Multiple-Processor
7 13,14 Scheduling, Real-Time Scheduling, Thread Scheduling, Operating, Systems
Examples
8 15,16 Mid Term
9 17,18 Introduction, Producer Consumer problem, critical section, semaphore
10 19,20 Deadlock and starvation, Monitors
The Deadlock Problem, System Model, Deadlock Characterization, Methods for
11 21,22 Handling Deadlocks, Deadlock Prevention, Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock
Detection, Recovery from Deadlock
12 23,24 Threads concepts, User level threads, kernel level threads, mapping of threads
13 25,26 Background, Swapping, Contiguous Memory Allocation
14 27,28 Paging, Structure of the Page Table, Segmentation Example: The Intel Pentium
15 29,30 Memory Management, Virtual Memory
16 31, 32 Virtual Memory