Basic Principles of an Operating System

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A basic guide to learn Design and Programming of operating system in depth Key features Easy to read and understand Covers the topic in-depth Good explanation of concepts with relevant diagrams and examples Contains a lot of review questions to understand the concepts Clarification of concepts using case studies The book will help to achieve a high confidence level and thus ensure high performance of the reader DescriptionAn operating system is an essential component of computers, laptops, smartphones and any other devices that manages the computer hardware. This book is a complete textbook that includes theory, implementation, case studies, a lot of review questions, questions from GATE and some smart tips. Many examples and diagrams are given in the book to explain the concepts. It will help increase the readability and understand the concepts.The book is divided into 11 chapters. It describe the basics of an operating system, how it manages the computer hardware, Application Programming interface, compiling, linking, and loading. It talks about how communication takes place between two processes, the different methods of communication, the synchronization between two processes, and modern tools of synchronization. It covers deadlock and various methods to handle deadlock.It also describes the memory and virtual memory organization and management, file system organization and implementation, secondary storage structure, protection and security. What will you learnThe proposed book will be very simple to read, understand and provide sound knowledge of basic concepts. It is going to be a complete book that includes theory, implementation, case studies, a lot of review questions, questions from GATE and some smart tips. Who this book is forBCA, BSc (IT/CS), MTech (IT/CSE), BTech (CSE/IT), MBA (IT), MCA, BBA (CAM), DOEACC, MSc (IT/CS/SE), MPhil, PGDIT, PGDBM. Table of contents1. Introduction and Structure of an Operating System2. Operating System Services3. Process Management4. Inter Process Communication and Process Synchronization5. Deadlock6. Memory Organization and Management7. Virtual Memory Organization8. File System Organization and Implementation9. Secondary Storage Structure10. Protection and Security11. Case Study About the authorDr Priyanka currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Departmentof Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of TechnologyHamirpur (H.P). In the past she has worked in University of Delhi. Shereceived her PhD degree in 2018, M.Tech. degree (Computer Engineering)in 2011, and B.Tech. degree (Honors) in Computer Science andEngineering in 2008. She has published many research papers and bookchapters in reputed national and international journals and conferences,including papers in IEEE Xplore, and SCI paper in wireless personalcommunication. She received two best paper and presentation awards ininternational conferences. Currently, she is serving as a Chairperson atIEEE Young Professional Delhi Section. Her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/priyanka-rathee-31066667

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  Basic Principles of an Operating System: Learn the Internals and...

  • 2019-10-29
  • 338 pages
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  • BPB Publications

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