Objective

To be familiar with different aspect of the distributed system, middleware, system level support and different issues in designing distributed algorithms

Syllabus

1. Introduction
   1. Introduction to Distributed Systems
   2. Examples of Distributed Systems
   3. Main Characteristics
   4. Advantages and Disadvantages of Distributed System
   5. Design Goals
   6. Main Problems
   7. Models of Distributed System
   8. Resource Sharing and the Web Challenges
   9. Types of Distributed System: Grid, Cluster, Cloud
2. Distributed Objects and File System
   1. Introduction
   2. Communication between distributed objects
   3. Remote Procedure Call
   4. Events And Notifications
   5. Java RMI Case Study
   6. Introduction to DFS
   7. File Service Architecture
   8. Sun Network File System
   9. Introduction to Name Services
   10. Name Services and DNS
   11. Directory and Discovery Services
   12. Comparison of Different Distributed File Systems
3. Operating System Support
   1. The operating system layer
   2. Protection
   3. Process and threads
   4. Communication and invocation
   5. Operating system architecture
4. Distributed Heterogeneous Applications and CORBA
   1. Heterogeneity in Distributed Systems
   2. Middleware
   3. Objects in Distributed Systems
   4. The CORBA approach
   5. CORBA services
5. Time and State in Distributed Systems
   1. Time in Distributed Systems,
      1. Physical Clocks
      2. Logical Clocks
      3. Vector Clocks
      4. Clock Synchronization
   2. Causal Ordering of Messages
   3. Global State and State Recording
   4. Distributed debugging
6. Coordination and Agreement
   1. Mutual Exclusion in Distributed Systems
   2. Algorithms for Mutual Exclusion
   3. Distributed Elections
   4. Multicast communication
   5. Consensus
7. Replication
   1. Reasons for Replication
   2. Object Replication
   3. Replication as Scaling Technique
   4. Fault Tolerant Services
   5. High Available Services
   6. Transaction with Replicated Data
8. Transaction and Concurrency Control
   1. Transactions
   2. Nested Transaction
   3. Locks
   4. Optimistic Concurrency Control
   5. Timestamp Ordering
   6. Comparison of Methods For Concurrency Control
   7. Introduction to Distributed Transactions
   8. Flat and Nested Distributed Transactions
   9. Atomic Commit Protocols
   10. Concurrency Control in Distributed Transactions
   11. Distributed Deadlocks
   12. Transaction Recovery
9. Fault Tolerance
   1. Introduction to Fault Tolerance
   2. Process Resilience
   3. Reliable Client Server Communication
   4. Distributed Commit
   5. Recovery
10. Case Studies
    1. CORBA
    2. Mach
    3. JINI
    4. TIB/Rendezvous