Distributed Systems - CS6601

INTRODUCTION

=> Distributed systems
=> Trends in Distributed Systems
=> Resource Sharing
=> The Challenges in Distributed System

COMMUNICATION IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

=> Introduction to System Models
=> System architectures
=> Performance of communication channels
=> Security model
=> The characteristics of interprocess communication
=> Sockets
=> UDP datagram communication
=> TCP stream communication
=> CORBA CDR for constructed types
=> Group communication
=> IP multicast – An implementation of multicast communication
=> Remote method invocation(RMI)
=> Remote Procedure Call
=> Case Study: Java RMI
=> Case Study of a Distributed Operating System

PEER TO PEER SERVICES AND FILE SYSTEM

=> Peer-To-Peer (P2P)
=> Overlay case studies: Pastry, Tapestry
=> Distributed File Systems
=> File Service Architecture
=> Case Study: The Andrew File System (AFS)
=> Naming Services
=> Global Name Service (GNS)
=> X500 Directory Service

SYNCHRONIZATION AND REPLICATION

=> Clocks, Events and Process States
=> Synchronizing physical clocks
=> Logical time and logical clocks
=> Global states
=> Distributed Mutual Exclusion
=> Elections in Distributed Systems
=> Multicast Communication
=> Consensus and related problems

PROCESS and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

=> Consensus and related problems
=> Process Management
=> Distributed Shared Memory
=> Resource Management
=> Load balancing (computing)
=> Scheduling algorithms
=> Load balancer features
=> Sharing annotations
=> Other Consistency Models
=> Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
=> CORBA RMI
=> CORBA IDL
=> CORBA Services