CS1007 ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS

ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI: CHENNAI – 600 025
B.E DEGREE PROGRAMME COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(Offered in Colleges affiliated to Anna University)
CURRICULUM AND SYLLABUS – REGULATIONS – 2004
B.E. COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
LIST OF ELECTIVES

CS1007 ADVANCED OPERATING SYSTEMS 3 0 0 100

AIM
To understand the principles in the design of modern operating systems, distributed and multiprocessor operating systems
OBJECTIVES
• To get a comprehensive knowledge of the architecture of distributed systems.
• To understand the deadlock and shared memory issues and their solutions in distributed environments.
• To know the security issues and protection mechanisms for distributed environments.
• To get a knowledge of multiprocessor operating system and database operating systems.

UNIT I 9
Architectures of Distributed Systems - System Architecture types - issues in distributed operating systems - communication networks – communication primitives. Theoretical Foundations - inherent limitations of a distributed system – lamp ports logical clocks – vector clocks – casual ordering of messages – global state – cuts of a distributed computation – termination detection. Distributed Mutual Exclusion – introduction – the classification of mutual exclusion and associated algorithms – a comparative performance analysis.
UNIT II 9
Distributed Deadlock Detection -Introduction - deadlock handling strategies in distributed systems – issues in deadlock detection and resolution – control organizations for distributed deadlock detection – centralized and distributed deadlock detection algorithms –hierarchical deadlock detection algorithms. Agreement protocols – introduction-the system model, a classification of agreement problems, solutions to the Byzantine agreement problem, applications of agreement algorithms. Distributed resource management: introduction-architecture – mechanism for building distributed file systems – design issues – log structured file systems.
UNIT III 9
Distributed shared memory-Architecture– algorithms for implementing DSM – memory coherence and protocols – design issues. Distributed Scheduling – introduction – issues in load distributing – components of a load distributing algorithm – stability – load distributing algorithm – performance comparison – selecting a suitable load sharing algorithm – requirements for load distributing -task migration and associated issues. Failure Recovery and Fault tolerance: introduction– basic concepts – classification of failures – backward and forward error recovery, backward error recovery- recovery in concurrent systems – consistent set of check points – synchronous and asynchronous check pointing and recovery – check pointing for distributed database systems- recovery in replicated distributed databases.
UNIT IV 9
Protection and security -preliminaries, the access matrix model and its implementations.-safety in matrix model- advanced models of protection. Data security – cryptography: Model of cryptography, conventional cryptography- modern cryptography, private key cryptography, data encryption standard- public key cryptography – multiple encryption – authentication in distributed systems.
UNIT-V 9
Multiprocessor operating systems - basic multiprocessor system architectures – inter connection networks for multiprocessor systems – caching – hypercube architecture. Multiprocessor Operating System - structures of multiprocessor operating system, operating system design issues- threads- process synchronization and scheduling.
Database Operating systems :Introduction- requirements of a database operating system Concurrency control : theoretical aspects – introduction, database systems – a concurrency control model of database systems- the problem of concurrency control – serializability theory- distributed database systems, concurrency control algorithms – introduction, basic synchronization primitives, lock based algorithms-timestamp based algorithms, optimistic algorithms – concurrency control algorithms, data replication.

TOTAL : 45
TEXT BOOK
1. Mukesh Singhal, Niranjan G.Shivaratri, "Advanced concepts in operating systems: Distributed, Database and multiprocessor operating systems", TMH, 2001
REFERENCES
1. Andrew S.Tanenbaum, "Modern operating system", PHI, 2003
2. Pradeep K.Sinha, "Distributed operating system-Concepts and design", PHI, 2003.
3. Andrew S.Tanenbaum, "Distributed operating system", Pearson education, 2003