DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

THE OXFORD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

HOSURE ROAD, BOMMANAHALLI, BANGALORE -560 068

Unit Topic Date Planned Topic Period Books

No. Referred
1 2/2/15 Introduction: Computer and Operating Systems: Basic Elements, 4
T2: pg 8-9
Processor Registers
2 3/2/15 Instruction Execution, Interrupts, The Memory Hierarchy 6 T2: pg 12-26
3 4/2/15 Cache Memory, I/O Communication Techniques, Introduction to 1
T2: pg 29-33
1. Operating System
4 5/2/15 Mainframe Systems, Desktop Systems, 4 T2: pg 34-36
5 6/2/15 Multiprocessor Systems, Distributed Systems 4 T2: pg 36-39
6 9/2/15 Clustered Systems, Handheld Systems, Real Time Systems 4 T2: pg 39-42
7 10/2/15 Feature Migration, Computing Environments 6 T2: pg 42-45
1 11/2/15 Operating System Structures: System Structures: System Components 1 T1: pg 3-11
2 12/2/15 Operating – System Services 4 T1: pg 15-20
3 13/2/15 System Calls, System Programs 4 T1: pg 21-26
2.
4 16/2/15 System Structure 4 T1: pg 28-31
5 18/2/15 System Design and Implementation, System Generation 1 T1: pg 41-47
6 19/2/15 Virtual Machines 4 T1: pg 47-52
3. 1 20/2/15 Process Management: Process, Process Control 4 T1: pg 53-67
2 23/2/15 Execution of the Operating System, Security Issues 4 T1: pg 87-93
3 24/2/15 Processes and Threads, Micro kernels 6 T1: pg 123-125
4 25/2/15 Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) 1 T1: pg 127-147
5 26/2/15 CPU Scheduler and CPU Scheduling algorithms 4 T1: pg 150-161
6 27/2/15 CPU Scheduling algorithms 4 T1: pg 161-170
1 9/3/15 Mutual Execution and Synchronization: 4 T1: pg 187-190
2 10/3/15 Principles o f Concurrency, Mutual Exclusion 6 T1: pg 191-195
3 11/3/15 Semaphores 1 T1: pg 196-200
4.
4 12/3/15 Hardware Support, Message Passing 4 T1: pg 193-196
5 13/3/15 Monitors 4 T1: pg 205-213
6 16/3/15 Readers/Writes Problem 4 T1: pg 202-203
5. 1 17/3/15 Deadlock and Starvation: Principles of Deadlock 6 T1: pg 237
2 18/3/15 Deadlock Prevention 1 T1: pg 244-247
3 19/3/15 Deadlock Avoidance 4 T1: pg 247-253
4 20/3/15 Deadlock Detection 4 T1: pg 254-259
5 23/3/15 An Integrated Deadlock Strategy 4 T1: pg 254-257
6 24/3/15 Dining Philosophers Problem 6 T1: pg 203-205
1 25/3/15 Memory Management: Swapping 1 T1: pg 265-274
2 26/3/15 Contiguous Memory Allocation, Paging 4 T1: pg 274 -292
3 27/3/15 Segmentation, Segmentation with Paging 4 T1: pg 292 -300
6. 4 30/3/15 Demand Paging, Process Creation 4 T1: pg 306-315
5 31/3/15 Page Replacement 6 T1: pg 315-327
6 1/4/15 Allocation of Frames 1 T1: pg 327-330
7 13/4/15 Thrashing 4 T1: pg 330-335
1 14/4/15 File – System Interface and Implementation: File Concept, Access 6 T1: pg 359-369
7. Methods
2 15/4/15 Directory Structure 1 T1: pg 369-379
 3 16/4/15 File System Mounting, File Sharing, Protection 4 T1: pg 379-391
4 17/4/15 File System Structure, File System Implementation 4 T1: pg 395-403
5 20/4/15 Directory Implementation 4 T1: pg 403-404
6 22/4/15 Allocation Methods 1 T1: pg 404-413
7 23/4/15 Free –Space Management 4 T1: pg 413-419
1 24/4/15 Secondary Storage, Computer Security: Disk Structure 4 T1: pg 435-440
2 27/4/15 Disk Scheduling, Disk Management 4 T1: pg 440-351
3 28/4/15 The Security Problem, User Authentication 6 T1: pg 623-626,
651-655
8. 4 29/4/15 Program Threats, System Threats 1 T1: pg 626-640
5 30/4/15 Case study of Linux Operating system: Linux System, history, Design 4 T1: pg 713-727
Principles, Kernel modules
6 4/5/15 Process management scheduling, Memory management 4 T1: pg 727-740
7 5/5/15 File systems, Input and output, Inter-process communications 6 T1: pg 740 -750
1 6/5/15 Revision of Chapter 1 1
2 7/5/15 Revision of Chapter 2 4
1 8/5/15 Revision of Chapter 3 and 4 4
2 14/5/15 Revision of Chapter 5 4
3 15/5/15 Revision of Chapter 6 6
4 18/5/15 Revision of Chapter 7 4
5 19/5/15 Revision of Chapter 8 6
6 20/5/15 Solving of old Question Papers 1
7 21/5/15 Solving of old Question Papers 4
8 22/5/15 Solving of old Question Papers 4

Assignment Topics
SL. No. Topics Submission Due on
1. Deadlock prevention, avoidance, detection, recovery algorithms 31-03-2015
2. Paging, Demand paging, Page replacement algorithms 27-04-2015
IA Examination:
1st IA Test: 2- 6 March 2015
2nd IA Test: 6- 10 April 2015
3rd IA Test: 11- 13 May 2015
Text Books:
T1. Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne: Operating System Principles, 7th edition, Wiley India, 2006.
T2. William Stallings: Operating Systems – Internals and Design Principles, Pearson, 6th edition, 2012
Reference Books:
R1. Chakraborty: Operating Systems, Jaico Publishing House, 2011.
R2. Dhananjay M. Dhamdhere: Operating Systems – A Concept – Based Approach, Tata McGraw – Hill, 3rd Edition,
2012
R3. Elmasri, Carrick, Levine: Operating Systems – A spiral Approach, Tata McGraw – Hill, 2012.

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