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Operating Systems Course Outline

The document outlines a course syllabus for Operating Systems at Allama Iqbal College, detailing lecture topics and subtopics including system organization, process scheduling, multithreading, memory management, and disk scheduling. It covers fundamental concepts such as CPU scheduling, deadlock, file systems, and virtualization. The course also includes a review of key concepts and case studies related to Linux and Windows operating systems.

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Operating Systems Course Outline

The document outlines a course syllabus for Operating Systems at Allama Iqbal College, detailing lecture topics and subtopics including system organization, process scheduling, multithreading, memory management, and disk scheduling. It covers fundamental concepts such as CPU scheduling, deadlock, file systems, and virtualization. The course also includes a review of key concepts and case studies related to Linux and Windows operating systems.

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Course Name: Operating System
Lecture
Topic Subtopics Date
No.

Introduction to Operating
1 Overview, Functions, Types of OS
Systems

Computer-System
2 Components: CPU, Memory, I/O Devices, System Bus
Organization

Computer-System Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), System Design


3
Architecture Principles

Monolithic, Microkernel, Layered, Modular


4 Operating-System Structure
Architectures

Operating-System
5 System Boot, Interrupts, System Calls
Operations

6 Process Concept Process States, Control Block, Process Scheduling

7 Process Scheduling Scheduling Criteria, Algorithms (FCFS, SJF, RR, Priority)

8 Operations on Processes Creation, Termination, Hierarchical Relationships

Benefits, Models (Many-to-One, One-to-One, Many-


9 Threads
to-Many), Libraries

10 Multicore Programming Thread-Level Parallelism, Synchronization Challenges

11 Multithreading Models User vs. Kernel Threads, Thread Scheduling

Race Conditions, Mutual Exclusion, Peterson’s


12 Critical-Section Problem
Solution

Binary, Counting Semaphores, Operations (wait,


13 Semaphores
signal)

14 CPU Scheduling Scheduling Algorithms, Evaluation Criteria

15 Thread Scheduling Thread vs. Process Scheduling, Algorithm Comparison

Multiple-Processor Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Multiprocessing, Load


16
Scheduling Balancing

Characterization, Prevention, Avoidance, Detection,


17 Deadlock
Recovery
Lecture
Topic Subtopics Date
No.

18 Swapping Basic Concepts, Performance Implications

Contiguous Memory
19 Fixed and Variable Partitioning, Fragmentation
Allocation

20 Paging Page Table Structure, Address Translation

21 Segmentation Segmentation vs. Paging, Address Mapping

Demand Paging, Copy-on-Write, Page Replacement


22 Virtual Memory
Algorithms

Page Replacement
23 FIFO, LRU, Optimal, Clock Algorithm
Algorithms

24 Thrashing Causes, Prevention, Working Set Model

25 Disk Scheduling Scheduling Algorithms (FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN)

26 Disk Management Disk Structure, RAID Levels, Disk Formatting

27 File System Interface File Concepts, Access Methods, Directory Structures

Allocation Methods, Free-Space Management,


28 File System Implementation
Efficiency and Performance

I/O Hardware, Kernel I/O Subsystem, Transforming I/O


29 I/O Systems
Requests

30 Virtual Machines Concepts, Benefits, Implementation Challenges

Characteristics, Communication Models,


31 Distributed Systems
Synchronization

Architecture, Kernel, System Calls, Process


32 The Linux System
Management

System Security and


33 Goals, Principles, Access Control, Authentication
Protection

34 Virtualization Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, Resource Allocation

Course Review and Case Review of Key Concepts, Case Studies (Linux,
35
Studies Windows), Future Trends

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