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: NC343      Section 2 Students with even roll numbers Instructor: Bivas Mitra Classroom: NC344 Lab: Software Labs, Old Building, Slot P [Fri (02:00pm–05:00pm)] Courses will start from the second week (05–09) of January

Teaching Assistants Anju Bhuiya Arpan Dam Chepuri Naga Venkata Varsha Navaneeth Shaji Pasupulety Chethan Krishna Venkat Priyanshu Kumar Salma Mandi Shahnawaz Hussain Sudipa Garain Tarannum Ara Thota Kesava Chandra

Tentative Coverage (Theory)

Topic	# hours
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

• [Main Textbook]    Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne, Operating System Concepts, 10th edition (Global edition), Wiley, 2018 (2023).

• [Reference 1]    William Stallings, Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 9th edition (Global edition), Pearson, 2018.
• [Reference 2]    Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Herbert Bos, Modern Operating Systems, 5th edition, Pearson, 2023.

• [For Lab Assignments]    Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall, Beej’s Guide to Interprocess Communication, online tutorial.

Tests

• Class Test 1 and Lab Test 1: Beginning of February
• Class Test 2 and Lab Test 2: 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

#	Topic	Date	More info
Lab Assignment 1 [Random graph generator]	Multi-process applications	09-Jan-2026	Sample codes          [fork and wait] 1, 2, 3, 4          [exec] 1, 2          [fork, wait, and exec] basic shell
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