Fundamentals of Operating Systems and Programming

			Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Unit Code	MN404– T1 2020
Unit Title	Fundamentals of Operating Systems and Programming
Assessment Type	Individual Assignment
Assessment Title	Role of Operating Systems and Command Line Interface (CLI)
Purpose  of  the	This assignment assesses the following Unit Learning Outcomes; students
assessment (with	should be able to demonstrate their achievements in them.
ULO Mapping)			a.  Describe the role of Operating Systems (OS) and its different
			subsystems in controlling computer hardware
			b.  Demonstrate competency in the use of a command line interface to
			operate and perform simple OS administration
Weight	Assignment 1a – 5%
	Assignment 1b – 15%
Total Marks	Assignment 1a – 10 Marks
	Assignment 1b – 50 Marks
Word limit	Not applicable
Due Date	Assignment 1a- Week 3, Sunday 6 pm, 12th April 2020
	Assignment 1b- Week 7, Sunday 6 pm, 10th					May 2020
Submission	• Submit Assignment 1a in a word document in week 3
Guidelines	• Submit a word document that contains the screen shots of the answers to
		all the questions in Assignment 1b-section2 (Unix exercises) along with the
		answers for questions in Assignment 1b – Section 1 in week 7. Make sure
		that all the screen shots submitted on Moodle must carry your unique id
		such as MITID, names etc.
	•	All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date (week 3 for
		Assignment 1a and Week 7 Assignment 1b) along with a completed
		Assignment Cover Page.
	•		The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri
			(Body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate
			section headings.
	•	Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed
		appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE Transactions on
		Networking referencing style.
	•  Students must ensure before submission of final version of the assignment
			that the similarity percentage as computed by Turnitin has to be less than
			10%. Assignments with more than 10% similarity may not be considered
			for marking.
Extension			If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration
			Application must be submitted directly through AMS. You must submit this
			application within three working days of the assessment due date. Further
			information is available at:
			http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-
			procedures-and-guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment
Academic			Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness
Misconduct			of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to
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Purpose of the Assignment:

The Assignment1 focuses on two aspects. First,the role of OS as an interface between the user and the computer hardware. Second, the use of command line interface. It helps the students to understand the different types of OS and their relative performances. Also, it assists the students to gain competency in using UNIX/LINUX commands in performing simple OS administration.

By doing this assignment, students will be able to do research and comprehend the basic and latest concepts of OS and how differently or similarly they play the interfacing role on various computing and communication devices. Also, they will appreciate the ease of using GUI over CLI.

Assignment Structure and submission guidelines:

 Assignment1 being formative assessment is divided into two parts. The first part of assignment 1 focuses on the basic concepts of the current operating systems that is marked for 5% of the total marks and the second part is an extension of first part along with understanding and implementation of Unix commands covering the remaining 15% of the total marks. Students have to submit the first part by the end of week 3. Once the first part is marked and a constructive feedback is provided, the responses to the comments/feedback has to be tabulated and appended to Assignment 1b that would be submitted in week 7.

Assignment 1 Specifications:

Assignment 1a:  Operating Systems (OS) (10 Marks)

The Internet of Things promises to revolutionize how we interact with computers by making embedded computation ubiquitous. New devices will be added to cities, to homes, to factories, to ourselves (inside and out), to cars, and to many other facets of life. The hope is that this influx of technology will help us solve many pressing societal issues in areas such as energy, personal health, the environment, and safety. While there are a range of challenges to enabling this scale, this assignment will focus on the OS environments running on IoT devices.

Embedded operating systems and software stacks running on embedded nodes must balance numerous challenges while effectively supporting developers and potential applications. OSes for embedded or IoT devices often operate with very different assumptions and have different constraints than desktop and server operating systems. Embedded devices often are expected to run unattended for months or years, without a user interface, on a minimal energy budget, while responding to application-specific events and using an often-unreliable wireless network interface.

In this context the research community has recognized the importance of IoT device operating systems (OSs). This OS has to have an adequate kernel, networking and real-time capability etc to make the IoT devices flexible to be used in many applications.

In first part of the Assignment 1, literature review of minimum of two journal/ conference papers (No blogs or Wikipedia to be considered) is required focussing on the following points:

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MN404 Fundamentals of Operating Systems and Programming

• Highlight the necessity of an OS for IoT devices. 2 Marks
• Elaborate on the essential features desired in an OS tailored for IoT devices.

For example, what features of an Operating System are important for the IoT devices to send data through internet? 4 Marks

• To provide two motivating applications highlighting the importance and justification of using IoT

devices. 4 Marks

The reference papers used in this assignment need to focus on the recent research (last 2-5 years), but will also include older, more foundational papers for certain topics.

Assignment 1b: IoT Operating System and Unix Scripts		(50 Marks)
Section 1:		(28 Marks)

The second Part of the assignment shall explore different IoT operating systems, their design decisions and trade-offs, and a range of requirements that are critical in the IoT space.

Students need to focus on the following aspects:

• Addressing the feedback provided in Part 1 of the assignment 4 Marks
• For one of the applications mentioned in part 1 of the assignment identify a suitable IoT OS. 2 Marks
• What are the parameters used for selecting a suitable IoT OS? 4 Marks• Highlight the advantages of the suggested IoT OS with proper justifications. 4 Marks
• Describe the types of hardware platforms that this identified IoT OS may run on. 2 Marks
• To come up with a general IoT-OS model, which consists of main features for an IoT-OS thatcan be used for a diverse set of applications. 10 Marks
• References and in text citations. 2 Marks

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	Section 2:		10 Marks
	See the Shell Script using Unix commands below and answer accordingly
	echo”Hello	World”	#  This  is  a  comment, too!

 

a.	Type in the above script. Try to predict the outcome before you run it and verify running the
	script.	2 Marks
b.	Write a simple shell script that performs basic arithmetic operations (+, _, *, /)	4 Marks
c.	Write a shell script that displays a list of files in current directory to which the user has read, write
	and execute permissions.	4 Marks

 

Pl Note: Refer to the man command to understand the syntax and parameters for the commands that you would be using in this section.

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Marking criteria:
Questions	Description	Marks
Assignment 1a	Importance of IoT OS	2 Marks
	Essential Key features of IoT OS	4 Marks
	Applications using IoT devices	4 Marks
Assignment1 b	Responses to Part 1	4 Marks
Section 1
	Identifying IoT OS for an application	2 Marks
	Parameters used for selecting a	4 Marks
	suitable IoT OS
	Advantages of the suggested IoT OS	4 Marks
	Hardware platforms for IoT OSes	2 Marks
	General IoT-OS model, to be used for	10 Marks
	a diverse set of applications.
Section 2	Simple Shell Scripts using Unix	10 Marks
	commands.
Reference style	Follow IEEE Transactions on	2 marks
	Networking reference style (should
	have both in-text citation and
	reference list)
	Minimum of 4 references for this
	Assignment 1a+ Assignment 1b are a
	must
Demo and Viva	Students remaining absent for	12 Marks
	Demo and Viva will lose 40% of the
	scored marks.
	Demo and Viva will be conducted in
	week 6 and week 7 lab classes.
	Total (Assignment1a +	60 Marks
	Assignment1b)

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Grades	HD	D	Credit	P	N (fail)
Assignment 1a	Excellent	Good research	Generally	Some research	No research carried out.
	research work and	work and	relevant	work and brief	Irrelevant discussions
	focused	discussions are	research work	discussions.	and no references.
	discussions and	relevant and	and discussions	Some
	analysis	soundly	are relevant.	references.
	Sound references	analysed.	some
	from reputed	Good references	references.
	journals.
Assignment 1b-	Identified relevant	Identified	Identified Good	Less relevant	Not focused on the
Section 1	Application.	relevant	Application.	application and	requirements of the
	Excellent and	Application.	Answers for all	answers	assignment questions.
	Focused answers	Focused	questions
	for all questions.	answers for all	are generally		Not a good model
	Excellent IoT- OS	questions	good.
	Model		IoT OS model
		Good IoT- OS	not generic.	IoT OS model
		Model		covers very few
				or one
				applications
Assignment 1b-	Perfect usage and	Good usage and	Good	Some relevance	Not relevant to the
Section 2	understanding of	understanding	understanding		assigned tasks.
	relevant	of commands	of commands
	commands for the	for the given	for the given
	given tasks.	tasks.	tasks.
	Sound logic	Good logic
Demo and Viva	Logic is clear and	Consistency	Mostly	Adequate	Argument is confused
Voce	easy to follow with	logical and	consistent	cohesion and	and disjointed
	strong arguments	convincing	logical and	conviction
			convincing
IEEE Reference	Clear styles with	Clear	Generally good	Sometimes	Lacks consistency with
style	excellent source of	referencing style	referencing	clear	many errors
	references.		style	referencing
				style

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