The Operating System course (BIT 235) for Year 2, Semester 3, provides in-depth knowledge of the interface between user programs and computer hardware. Students will learn about operating system components, process management, memory management, and file systems, with a focus on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The course includes lectures, tutorials, and assessments through assignments, exams, and quizzes, totaling 100%.
The Operating System course (BIT 235) for Year 2, Semester 3, provides in-depth knowledge of the interface between user programs and computer hardware. Students will learn about operating system components, process management, memory management, and file systems, with a focus on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The course includes lectures, tutorials, and assessments through assignments, exams, and quizzes, totaling 100%.
The Operating System course (BIT 235) for Year 2, Semester 3, provides in-depth knowledge of the interface between user programs and computer hardware. Students will learn about operating system components, process management, memory management, and file systems, with a focus on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The course includes lectures, tutorials, and assessments through assignments, exams, and quizzes, totaling 100%.
The Operating System course (BIT 235) for Year 2, Semester 3, provides in-depth knowledge of the interface between user programs and computer hardware. Students will learn about operating system components, process management, memory management, and file systems, with a focus on critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The course includes lectures, tutorials, and assessments through assignments, exams, and quizzes, totaling 100%.
3 Name(s) of academic staff: 4 Rationale for the inclusion of the course /module in the programme: This course offers in depth knowledge on established, convenient and efficient interface between user programs and the bare hardware of the computer on which they run.
5 Semester and Year offered: year 2 semester 3
6 Course Hours Face to Face ILT TSLT L T P O L=Lecture T=Tutorial P=Practical 45 15 - 6 60 126 O=Others TSLT=Total student learning time
7 Credit Value:3 8 Prerequisite: Nil 9 Course Learning Outcomes: On completion of this course students will be able to: Describe the fundamental components of a computer operating system. Design and construct the following OS components: System calls, Schedulers, Memory management systems, Virtual Memory and Paging systems useful for lifelong learning process. Analyse theory and implementation of: processes, resource control (concurrency etc.), physical and virtual memory, scheduling, I/O and files in professional manner. 10 Transferable Skills: Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Skills Information Management & Life Long Learning Ethics, moral and professionalism 11 Teaching –learning and assessment strategy Lectures Tutorials At the end of the programme, students are given an opportunity to evaluate the course and the lecturer. 12 Synopsis: This course module acts as a platform of information exchange between computer's hardware and the applications running on it. This module main aim is to make students acknowledge about the purpose, structure and functions of operating systems. 13 Mode of Delivery: Lectures, Tutorials. 14 Assessments Methods and Types: Assignments 20% Mid Exam 20% Final Exam 50% Quiz 10% Total 100%
Content Outline of the course/module and the SLT per topic
15 Face to face ILT Total No Subject description Lecture Tutorial Practical Others 1. Operating System Overview: Introduction of Operating System and its function Components of Operating System Evolution/History of operating system Types of Operating System Operating System Structure 7 2 - - 9 18 System Calls Definition Handling System Calls System calls for Process, File, and Directory Management, System Programs 2. Process Management: Introduction to Process, Process Vs Program, Multiprogramming Process Model, Process Control Block/Process Table Thread: - Definition, Thread Vs Process - User and Kernel Space Threads Inter Process Communication: - Definition - Race Condition and Critical Section Mutual Exclusion: - Mutual Exclusion with Busy Waiting (Disabling Interrupts, Lock Variables, Strict Alteration, Peterson’s Solution, Test and Set 12 3 - - 8 16 Lock) - Sleep and Wakeup, Semaphore, Monitors, Message Passing IPC Problems: - Producer Consumer, Sleeping Barber, and Dining Philosopher and Problem Process Scheduling: - Definition - Batch System Scheduling (First-Come First-Served, Shortest Job First, Shortest Remaining Time Next),Interactive System Scheduling (Round-Robin Scheduling, Priority Scheduling, Multiple Queues) 3. Deadlock: Definition Deadlock Characterization Deadlock Conditions Handling Deadlocks: 5 2 - - 7 14 - Ostrich Algorith, Deadlock Prevention, Deadlock Avoidance, Deadlock Detection, Recovery From Deadlock 4. Memory Management: Memory Management Background Logical vs. physical address space 5 2 - - 7 14 Swapping Contiguous memory allocation Paging Segmentation 5. Virtual Memory Management: Background Paging, page table, page table structure, Demand paging, 3 2 - - 5 10 handling page faults, TLB’s Page replacement algorithm
6. File Systems: File concept, file system, File structure, File types, file attributes, file access methods, Directories structure Implementation 5 2 - - 7 14 - Contiguous allocation - Linked List Allocation (Linked List Allocation using Table in Memory/ File Allocation Table, Inodes.) 7. Device Management: Classification of IO devices, Controllers, Memory Mapped IO, DMA Operation, Interrupts IO Handling - Goals of IO Software, Handling IO(Programmed IO, Interrupt Driven IO, IO using DMA), IO Software Layers (Interrupt 8 2 - - 10 20 Handlers, Device Drivers) Disk Management - Disk Structure, Disk Scheduling (FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, CSCAN, LOOK, CLOOK), Disk Formatting (Cylinder Skew, Interleaving, Error handling), RAID Total 45 15 - - 60 120 16. Main references supporting the course: Modern Operating Systems: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, PH1 Publication, Third edition, 2008
Additional References Supporting the Course:
An Introduction to Operating Systems: Concepts and Practice by Pramod Chandra Bhatt, 2010. Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles by William Stallings, 7thEdition,(2011)
