CS 323 – Operating Systems

Course Objectives:

1.  Develop an appreciation of operating system operation, design and implementation.
2.  Learn the fundamentals of modern operating systems.

Course Description:

This course offers a formal introduction to operating systems. Topics include an overview of the components of an operating system, concurrency, mutual exclusion and synchronization, implementation of processes, deadlock, scheduling algorithms, memory management, I/O and file systems, and protection and security.

Topics Covered:

Lectures:

1. Operating system structure
2. Process concept and management
3. Synchronization and communication
4. Memory management
5. File systems
6. Protection and security

Laboratory:

1.  Basic operating system commands
2.  Process handling and execution
3.  Virtual memory
4.  Multiple threads and synchronization
5.  File system
6.  Ports
7.  Resources

Textbooks:

1. A. Silberschatz, P. Galvin, G. Gagne, “Operating System Concepts”, 8th ed., Wiley, 2008. [View Book]

Slides:

1. Introduction to OS [PPT]
2. OS related HW and SW and Process [PPT]
3. Threads[PPT]
4. Concurrent programming and Synchronization [PPT]
5. Semaphores and Classical Synchronization Problems[PPT]
6. Monitors and Message Passing[PPT]
7. Deadlock[PPT]
8. Process Scheduling[PPT]
9. Memory Management[PPT]
10. Virtual Memory[PPT]

Homework:

Homework is moved to the slides