Introduction to Operating System Design and Implementation: The OSP 2 Approach / Edition 1

by Michael Kifer, Scott Smolka

Overview

OSP 2 is both an implementation of a modern operating system and a flexible environment for generating implementation projects appropriate for an introductory course in operating system design. This book is an introduction to the design and implementation of operating systems using OSP 2, the next generation of the highly popular OSP courseware for undergraduate operating system courses.

Topics and Features: Process and thread management; Memory, Resource and I/0 device management; Interprocess communication; Gives opportunity to practice these skills in a realistic operating systems programming environment.

This book contains enough projects for up to 3 semesters, exposing students to many essential features of operating systems, while at the same time isolating them from low-level machine-dependent concerns. Thus, even in 1 semester, students can learn about page-replacement strategies in virtual memory management, CPU-scheduling strategies, disk seek-time optimization & other issues in operating system design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846288425
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	07/16/2007
Series:	Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Organization of OSP 2.- Putting it All Together: An Example Session with OSP 2.- Tasks: Management of Tasks (a.k.a. Processes).- Threads: Management and Scheduling of Threads.- Memory: Virtual Memory Management.- Devices: Scheduling of Disk Requests.- FileSys: The File System.- Ports: Interprocess Communication.- Resources: Resource Management.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"This book is a manual for a hands-on computer science course on design principles and algorithms of modern operating systems. To convey essential features of today’s operating systems, the authors have contrived an operating system framework, called OSP 2, written in Java, in order to assign projects that implement management of important operating system features." (Rainer Horsch, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1130 (8), 2008)

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