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    This document outlines the details of the CSNS5513 - Advanced Operating Systems course taught by Dr. Muhammad Amjad Iqbal. The course is 3 credit hours and meets once a week for 3 hour lectures in room 302 on Thursdays at 6:30pm. The course content covers advanced topics in operating systems including distributed operating systems, multiprocessor operating systems, and failure recovery. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, a technical paper, midterm tests, and a final test. The course recommends textbooks and references related to operating systems.

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    This document outlines the details of the CSNS5513 - Advanced Operating Systems course taught by Dr. Muhammad Amjad Iqbal. The course is 3 credit hours and meets once a week for 3 hour lectures in room 302 on Thursdays at 6:30pm. The course content covers advanced topics in operating systems including distributed operating systems, multiprocessor operating systems, and failure recovery. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, a technical paper, midterm tests, and a final test. The course recommends textbooks and references related to operating systems.

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    CSNS5513 - Advanced Operating

    Systems
    Date: March 3rd, 2011
    Teacher: Dr. Muhammad Amjad Iqbal
    Room No. 024
    Email: [email protected]
    Phone: ext. 105 (off)

    Teaching Assistant: TBA

    Course Code: CSNS5513


    Course Title: Advanced Operating Systems
    Credit Hours: Three
    Course Structure: One Lecture a Week of 3 hours duration
    Class Venue: Lecture Hall No. 302
    Class Timing: Thursday (6:30pm)

    Course Contents
     Introductory Class (today’s first lecture)
     Operation Systems Basics (Review)
     Processes and Threads
     Scheduling
     Memory Management
     Virtual Memory
     Input / Output Management & Disk Scheduling
     File Management
     Inter-process Communication
     Process Deadlocks
     Synchronization Mechanisms
     Distributed Operating Systems
     Architecture of distributed systems
     Theoretical foundations of distributed operating
    systems
     Distributed Mutual Exclusion
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    Distributed Deadlock Detection
     Protocols
     Distributed Resource Management
     Distributed File Systems
     Distributed Shared Memory
     Distributed Scheduling
     Failure Recovery and Fault Tolerance
     Protection and Security
    Multiprocessor Operating Systems
     Multiprocessor systems architectures
     Multiprocessor OS
     Miscellaneous Topics

    Text Books
    [1] Mukesh Singhal and Niranjan G. Shivaratri, Advanced
    Concepts in Operating Systems, McGraw Hill, 1994.
    [2] Chris Brown, Unix – Distributed Programming,
    Prentice Hall, 1994.
    [3] Mark Mitchell, Jeffrey Oldham and Alex Samuel,
    Advanced Linux Programming, New Riders Publications,
    www.newriders.com, 2001.
    [4] Tanenbaum, A. S., Modern Operating Systems, Prentice
    Hall, 1997.
    [5] Stallings, W., Operating Systems – Internals and Design
    Principles, Prentice Hall, 1998.
    [6] Silberschatz, A. and Galvin, P. B., Operating Systems
    Concepts, 5th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
    [7] Bovet, D. P., and Cesati,M., Understanding Linux Kernel,
    O’Reilly, 2001.
    [8] Stevens, W. R., Advanced Programming in Unix
    Environment, Addison Wesley, 1997.

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    Reference Books
    [1] Tanenbaum, A. S. and Woodhull, A. S., Operating Systems –
    Design and Implementation, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1998.
    [2] Stallings, W., Operating Systems, Prentice Hall, 1995.
    [3] Nutt, G., Operating Systems – A Modern Perspective,
    Addison-Wesley-Longman, Inc., 1997.
    nd
    [4] Deitel, H. M., Operating Systems, 2 Edition, Pearson
    Education Asia, Ltd., 2000.

    Other Resources
    • Technical Journals of ACM and IEEE Societies.
    • Internet:
    o Web pages of the authors of various OS books and OS researchers.
    o OS course web pages of various international universities.
    • Library
    • Various operating systems and their on-line documentation available with them.

    Programming Languages and Software


    [1] C/C++
    [2] Visual Basic / Visual C++ / Java

    Evaluation / Marks Distribution


    • Quizzes 05
    • Assignments 10
    • Technical Paper 10
    • Mid-Term Tests 30
    • Final Test 45

    Class Policies
    • Class assignments are required to be submitted on or before the due date and time.
    No marks will be given for the late submissions.

    • It is highly recommended that you try to do the assignments on your own. Some
    questions from the assignments may be asked in the mid- or final examinations.

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