Overview
- Contains enough projects for up to 3 semesters
- These projects expose students to essential features of operating systems, whilst isolating them from low-level machine-dependent concerns
- An Instructors Manual details how to use the OSP Project Generator and sample assignments
- The OSP courseware itself is available to instructors
- A complementary website provides support for both students and instructors using OSP 2
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Operating System Design and Implementation
Book Subtitle: The OSP 2 Approach
Authors: Michael Kifer, Scott A. Smolka
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-843-6
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-842-5Published: 14 August 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-843-2Published: 08 June 2007
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 172
Topics: Operating Systems