AOS (MCA 4th)

SectionA

Multi-Processor and Distributed Operating System: Introduction, Architecture, Organization,

Resource sharing, Load Balancing, Availability and Fault Tolerance, Design and

Development Challenges, Inter-process Communication, Distributed Applications–

Logical Clock, Mutual Exclusion, Distributed File System.

Section B

Real Time and Embedded Operating Systems: Introduction, Hardware Elements, StructureInterrupt

Driven, Nano kernel, Microkernel and Monolithic kernel based models. SchedulingPeriodic,

Aperiodic and Sporadic Tasks, Introduction to Energy Aware CPU Scheduling

SectionC

Cluster and Grid Computing: Introduction to Cluster Computing and MOSIXOS, Introduction

to the Grid, Grid Architecture, Computing Platforms: Operating Systems and Network Interfaces,

Grid Monitoring and Scheduling, Performance Analysis, Case Studies

Section D

Cloud Computing: Introduction to Cloud, Cloud Building Blocks, Cloud asIaaS, PaaSandSaaS, Hardware &

Software Virtualization, Virtualization of OS–Hypervisor KVM, SAN & NAS back-end concepts.

Mobile Computing: Introduction, Design Principals, Structure, Platform and Features of Mobile

Operating Systems(Android, IOS, Windows Mobile OS)