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OS Research Directions, Reliability of Commodity OSes, Mobile Phone Risks and Security (V-U)

Course:Advanced Operating Systems (V-U)
Discipline:Applied Sciences
Institute:Virtual University
Instructor(s): Mr. Farhan Zaidi
Level:Graduate

Advanced Operating Systems (V-U)

ACL VS Capabilities, Delegation VS Revocation, Operations on Capabilities, Roles (V-U)
Assignment and Scheduling of Processes / Threads to Processors, Real-time Systems (V-U)
Concurrency Examples, Locks, Implementing Locks, Semaphores (V-U)
Consistency Problem, Atomic Disk Operations (V-U)
Course Objectives, Introduction, Issues involved in the Design of Operating Systems (V-U)
Overview of 1 – 21 Lectures (V-U)
Deadlocks: Definition, Required Conditions, Examples, Detection, Avoidance, Prevention (V-U)
Page Fault Frequency, Sharing, Copy on Write, Mapped Files, P6 Memory System (V-U)
Design Alternatives for Concurrent Servers, CPU Scheduling (V-U)
Page Replacement, Thrashing, Working Set Model, Page Fault Frequency, Copy on Write (V-U)
Device Independent I/O Software Layer, Buffered & Un-buffered I/O, Block & Character Devices (V-U)
Explicit Free Lists Base Allocator, Segregated Free Lists, Exploiting Allocation Patterns (V-U)
Paging, Address Translation, Page Tables & Page Table Entries, Multi-level Address Translation (V-U)
POSIX Threads: Interface, e.g clone() System Call, Process / Threads States, FSM in Linux (V-U)
File Systems: Basic Operations, File Access Methods, Directories, Protection (V-U)
Process Management Models, State Machines, PCB, System Calls for Process Management (V-U)
File Systems: Log Structured File Systems (V-U)
Processes: Definition, Address Space; Context Switching, Process Management Models (V-U)
File Systems: Physical Disk Structure, Disk Scheduling, BSD 4.4 FFS (V-U)
Producer Consumer Problem, Semaphores, Condition Variables and Monitors (V-U)

OS Research Directions, Reliability of Commodity OSes, Mobile Phone Risks and Security (V-U)

Advanced Operating Systems (V-U)

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