Schedule

Timing: Slot E4 [Wed (12:00pm–01:00pm), Thu (11:00am–12:00pm) Fri (09:00am–11:00am)] Theory Section 1 Students with odd roll numbers Instructor: Abhijit Das Classroom: NC243      Section 2 Students with even roll numbers Instructor: Bivas Mitra Classroom: NC244 Lab: Software Labs, Old Building, Slot X [Wed (02:00pm–05:00pm)]

Teaching Assistants Not yet available

Tentative Coverage (Theory)

Topic	# hours	More info
Introduction to OS	2
Concept of process, states and state transition	3
Scheduling algorithms, context switching	3
Process synchronization and inter-process communication	5
Deadlock: necessary conditions, avoidance and prevention	3
Threads, popular thread libraries, thread synchronization	2
Memory management: Contiguous and non-contiguous allocation, Physical and logical addresses	3
Memory management: Paging, different Page-table architectures, Virtual Memory	6
File systems: file operations, organization, mounting, sharing	2
File system implementation	4
Disk and I/O management	3
Virtualization: motivation and techniques	2
Case studies of operating systems	2

Books and References

• Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 10th edition (Global edition), Wiley, 2018 (2023).
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Herbert Bos, Modern Operating Systems, 5th edition, Pearson, 2023.
• William Stallings, Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 9th edition (Global edition), Pearson, 2018.

• Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall, Beej’s Guide to Interprocess Communication, online tutorial.

Tests

• Class Test 1: End of January / Beginning of February
• Class Test 2: End of March / Beginning of April
• Mid-Semester Test: To be decided by the Institute
• End-Semester Test: To be decided by the Institute

Lab Assignments and Tests

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