CS25C11 Operating Systems Syllabus:

CS25C11 Operating Systems Syllabus – Anna University UG Syllabus Regulation 2025

Course objectives: This course presents core principles of modern operating systems and analyses components such as process management, CPU scheduling, synchronization, memory, file systems, and I/O.

Basics Of Operating Systems: History and Evolution of Operating Systems-Types of Operating Systems – Operating Systems structures- Functions of Operating Systemschallenges of Operating Systems- Unix & Linux Operating Systems.
Practicals
• Installation of a Linux OS
• Linux commands and shell scripting

System Calls and Process Management: System Calls-Process Concepts and Lifecycle, Process Control Block (PCB)- Context Switching – Threading Models, Process vs ThreadProcess Creation and Termination- Case study.
Practicals
• Process Creation using fork(), exec(), wait()
• Multi-threading using POSIX threads

CPU Scheduling: Scheduling Criteria and Objectives-Scheduling Algorithms – Preemptive and non-preemptive scheduling.

Practicals
• Implementation and generation of Gantt chart
o FCFS and SJF
o Round Robin, Priority and Multilevel Queue

Synchronization and Deadlocks: Concurrency Issues and Critical Section ProblemSynchronization Tools: Mutex, Semaphores-Deadlock: Necessary Conditions, Prevention, Avoidance, Detection, and Recovery.
Practicals
• Producer-Consumer and Readers-Writers problem
• Dead Lock

Memory Management: Memory Allocation: Contiguous, Paging, Segmentation-Virtual Memory, Demand Paging, Page Replacement Algorithms (FIFO, LRU, Optimal).
Practicals
• Page replacement algorithms
• Dynamic memory allocation and deallocation

File Systems and I/O Management: File System Concepts – Directory and File Access Control – I/O Management – Disk Scheduling Buffering, Caching – Case study.
Practicals
• File operations and file buffering.
• Disk scheduling algorithms.

Assessment Weightage:

Weightage:
Continuous Assessment: 50%
End Semester Theory
Examination: 50%
(i). Activities: 10%
(ii). Internal Theory Examinations: 30%
(iii).Internal Laboratory Examination: 10%

Mandated Activities with marks:

Assignments (30), Quiz (10), Project based learning (25), Flipped Classroom (10), Review of GATE questions (25).
Internal Examinations: TWO tests

References

1. Silberschatz, A., Galvin, P. B., & Gagne, G. “Operating System Concepts”, 10th Edition, Wiley, 2021.
2. H. M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel, and D. R. Choffnes,”Operating Systems”, 3rd edition Boston, MA, Pearson Education, 2003.
3. Mauerer, W. Professional “Linux Kernel Architecture”, Wiley, 2017.
4. Greg Tomsho, Guide to Operating Systems, 5th Edition, Cengage, 2017

e-Resources

1. Title: Operating System Fundamentals (Prof. P. S. Grover, IIT Kanpur) Platform: SWAYAM Link: https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec20_cs06/preview
2. Title: Linux Programming and Scripting (Prof. Abhiram Ranade, IIT Bombay) Platform: NPTEL/SWAYAM Link: https://nptel.ac.in/courses/117106113
3. Resource: Linux Kernel Explained – NPTEL YouTube Lecture