Description
Part A: Processes [80 points]
Objective: Practice mass storage, C programming, statistics knowledge.
In this project, you will write a program (diskschedule.c) that implements the
following disk scheduling algorithms. a) FCFS; b) SSTF; c) SCAN; d) C-SCAN;
e) LOOK; f) C-LOOK.
Your program will service a disk with 5000 cylinders numbered 0 to 4999. It
will service 1000 requests according to each of the algorithms listed above. The
program will be passed the initial position of the disk head (as a parameter on the
command line) and report the total amount of head movement required by each
algorithm. The workload (requests) will be given in two ways: 1) will be randomly
generated in your program; 2) will be read from an input file. Which one to use will
be specified at the command line. The program will be invoked as follows:
diskschedule
The name of the program will be diskschedule.
position. Assume the initial direction (when required) is always towards right (to
bigger cylinder numbers). If
generated randomly. The format of the input file (ascii text file) is given in the
example below. Each line is for a different request. A line contains a request number
and a cylinder number.
1 4000
2 2000
3 4500
4 1450
5 6534
…
1000 452
An example invocation of the program can be:
diskschedule 1230 in.txt
The output file be in the following example format:
FCFS: 15000
SSTF: 15000
SCAN: 15000
2
C-SCAN: 15000
LOOK: 15000
C-LOOK: 15000
Part B: Experiments [20 points]
Objective: Practice designing and conducting experiments and applying knowledge
and skills acquired in the Probability and Statistics course.
Run the program 100 different times with random input (random requests and random
initial head position). At the end, for each algorithm, find out the average total
movement and standard deviation of the total movement. Report the results in a table.
Submission
Put all your files into a project directory named with your ID (one of the IDs
of team members), tar the directory (using tar xvf), zip it (using gzip) and upload it
to Moodle. For example, a student with ID 20140013 will create a directory named
20140013, will put the files there, tar and gzip the directory and upload the file. The
uploaded file will be 20140013.tar.gz. Include a README.txt file as part of your
upload. It will have the name and ID of the student, at least. Include also a Makefile
to compile your program. We want to type just make and obtain the executables. Do
not forget to put your report (PDF form) into your project directory.
Additional Information and Clarifications
• Additional clarifications can be posted in piazza or on the course website
besides project specification.
• All requests arrive at the same time; time 0.
• LOOK and C-LOOK algorithms behave as follows when given head position
is outside of the lowest and highest value range of requests. For example for a
request list 98,183,37,122,14,124,65,67, if the head position starts at 190 or 2,
it is outside if request interval. In such a case, just start outside the interval
and then never go outside again. For the above example, in LOOK, if we
started at 2: go to 14, then 37, …; if we started at 190: go to 183, then to 124,
… (this is what we would do if we had started on 183 as well – change
direction immediately). In C-LOOK, go in the initial direction always. In this
case (according to project spec), that means we need to go to 14, if we start at
190. If we start at 2, we need to go to 14, again.
• In LOOK algorithms, while not serving requests in a direction, count that
movement as well in total head movement .
• Stop when the last request is served. You don’t need to move the head any
further.
