4542 (v.7) Foundations of Computer Science 351
| Area: | Department of Computing |
| Contact Hours: | 3.0 |
| Credits: | 25.0 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
| Practical: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Prerequisite(s): | 2519 (v.15) Systems Programming and Design 251 or any previous version
AND
12331 (v.3) Foundations of Computer Science 151 or any previous version
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| Operating Systems - definition, purpose, development, design, structures, components, services, system calls, system programs, system structure, virtual machines, system design and implementation. Process Management - concept, scheduling, operation and cooperation, threads, inter-process communication, CPU Scheduling criteria and algorithms, semaphores, classical problems, critical regions, monitors, deadlocks. Storage Management - memory management, background, address space, swapping, contiguous allocation, paging, segmentation, paging, virtual memory, page replacement algorithms, file system interface and implementation, file concept, access methods, protection, implementation. I/O Systems - Mass storage structure, I/O hardware and interface, disk structure scheduling, management and reliability (RAID). Distributed Systems - structures, file systems, design issues, file naming, file access and replication, event ordering, mutual exclusion, deadlock detection, election and reaching agreement methods. Protection and Security - goals, access matrix, program and system threats. |
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2003 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | | 2003 | Miri Sarawak Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | | | 2003 | Sri Lanka Inst Info Tech | Semester 1 | Y | | | |
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