Research and Markets: Operating Systems In Depth: Design and Programming

March 24, 2011

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8a711f/operating_systems) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Operating Systems In Depth: Design and Programming" to their offering.

This book is designed for a one-semester operating-systems course for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Prerequisites for the course generally include an introductory course on computer architecture and an advanced programming course.

The goal of this book is to bring together and explain current practice in operating systems. This includes much of what is traditionally covered in operating-system textbooks: concurrency, scheduling, linking and loading, storage management (both real and virtual), file systems, and security. However, the book also covers issues that come up every day in operating-systems design and implementation but are not often taught in undergraduate courses. For example, the text includes:

Deferred work, which includes deferred and asynchronous procedure calls in Windows, tasklets in Linux, and interrupt threads in Solaris.
The intricacies of thread switching, on both uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems.
Modern file systems, such as ZFS and WAFL.
Distributed file systems, including CIFS and NFS version 4.

The book and its accompanying significant programming projects make students come to grips with current operating systems and their major operating-system components and to attain an intimate understanding of how they work.

Key Topics Covered:

1 Introduction. 1.1 Operating Systems. 1.2 A Brief History of Operating Systems. 1.3 A Simple OS. 1.4 Beyond a Simple OS. 1.5 Conclusions. 1.6 Exercises. 1.7 References.

2 Multithreaded Programming. 2.1 Why Threads? 2.2 Programming with Threads. 2.3 Conclusions. 2.4 Exercises. 2.5 References. 3 Basic Concepts. 3.1 Context Switching. 3.2 Input/Output Architectures. 3.3 Dynamic Storage Allocation. 3.4 Linking and Loading. 3.5 Booting. 3.6 Conclusions. 3.7 Exercises. 3.8 References. 4 Operating-System Design. 4.1 A Simple System. 4.2 Rethinking Operating-System Structure. 4.3 Conclusions. 4.4 Exercises. 4.5 References.

5 Processor Management. 5.1 Threads Implementations. 5.2 Interrupts. 5.3 Scheduling. 5.4 Conclusions. 5.5 Exercises. 5.6 References.

6 File Systems. 6.1 The Basics of File Systems. 6.2 Crash Resiliency. 6.3 Directories and Naming. 6.4 Multiple Disks. 6.5 Flash Memory. 6.6 Case Studies. 6.7 Conclusions. 6.8 Exercises. 6.9 References.

7 Memory Management. 7.1 Memory Management in the Early Days. 7.2 Hardware Support for Virtual Memory. 7.3 Operating-System Issues. 7.4 Conclusions. 7.5 Exercises. 7.6 References.

8 Security. 8.1 Security Goals. 8.2 Security Architectures. 8.3 Conclusions. 8.4 Exercises. 8.5 References.

9 Introduction to Networking. 9.1 Network Basics. 9.2 Remote Procedure Call Protocols. 9.3 Conclusions. 9.4 Exercises. 9.5 References.

10 Distributed File Systems. 10.1 The Basics. 10.2 NFS Version 2. 10.3 Common Internet File System (CIFS). 10.4 DFS. 10.5 NFS Version 4. 10.6 Conclusions. 10.7 Exercises. 10.8 References.

Appendix URL Index. Glossary. Index.

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