Operating Systems
AY2014/2015 Semester 2
Basic concepts: structures, services, shell user view vs. system calls, evolution of operating systems. Process management: notion of process and its states, interrupts and context switch, threads vs. processes, interprocess communication and synchronisation, deadlocks, scheduling. Memory management: storage organisations, storage placement strategies, VM implementation, page replacement algorithms. I/O systems: device-independent interface, disk, clock, and terminals drivers, disk scheduling policies. File systems: file system structure, file management, file allocation, file reliability. Security and protection: specific and general protection schemes, access control list, capabilities, encryption. Case Study on Unix and Windows NT.
| AUs | 4.0 AUs |
| Categories | CoreBDE |
| Not Available To All Programme With | (Admyr 2011-onwards) |
| Not Available As BDE/UE To Programme | ACBS, ACC, ADM, AERO, ASEC, BCE, BEEC, BIE, BMS, BS, BUS, CBE, CBEC, CE, CEE, CEEC, CHEM, CHIN, CS, CSEC, CVEC, ECON, EEE, EEEC, ELH, ENE, ENEC, ENG, IEEC, IEM, LMS, MAT, MATH, ME, ME(DES), ME(MEC), MEEC, MEEC(DES), MEEC(MEC), MS, MTEC, PHSC, PHY, PSY, SOC |
| Mutually Exclusive With | CPE205, CZ2005, SC303 |
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