Transcript Signal Attenuation - Department of Information Technologies

DEPARTMENT of
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGIES
INTERNATIONAL
BURCH
UNIVERSITY
CEN 301
Operating System
2011-2012 Fall Term
Azizah Ibrahim
[email protected]
Class Schedule
Class Schedule: Monday 9:00-12:00,
 Office Hour:Open Door Policy
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Course Objectives
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Introduce the fundamentals of Operating System
Identify main module in operating system
Know the basic management of computer
hardware resources when program is working
Establish knowledge and understanding of the
fundamentals of Operating System Design
Provide current direction in the development of
Modern and Contemporary Operating System
Textbooks
1. William Stallings, Operating Systems Internals
and Design Principles 5th Edition 2005..
Brief Contents
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CHAPTER 1 Operating System Overview
CHAPTER 2 Process Description and Control
CHAPTER 3 Threads, SMP and Microkernels
CHAPTER 4 Concurrency: Mutual Exclusion and
Synchronization
CHAPTER 5 Concurrency: Deadlock and Starvation
CHAPTER 6 Memory management
MID TERM EXAM
CHAPTER 7 Uniprocessor scheduling
CHAPTER 8 I/O Management and Disk Scheduling
CHAPTER 9 File Management
CHAPTER 10 Security
Grading
Midterm
Final
Project
Attendance/Quiz
30%
40%
20%
10%