Distributed Systems

UNIT I : INTRODUCTION

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

UNIT II : MESSAGE ORDERING and SNAPSHOTS

UNIT III : DISTRIBUTED MUTEX and DEADLOCK

UNIT IV : RECOVERY and CONSENSUS

UNIT V : P2P and DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY

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

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Distributed systems
Trends in Distributed Systems
Resource Sharing
The Challenges 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 (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
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 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

Distributed Systems - CS8603

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UNIT I : INTRODUCTION

UNIT II : MESSAGE ORDERING and SNAPSHOTS

UNIT III : DISTRIBUTED MUTEX and DEADLOCK

UNIT IV : RECOVERY and CONSENSUS

UNIT V : P2P and DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY

For Extra Reference

UNIT I : INTRODUCTION

UNIT II : MESSAGE ORDERING and SNAPSHOTS

UNIT III : DISTRIBUTED MUTEX and DEADLOCK

UNIT IV : RECOVERY and CONSENSUS

UNIT V : P2P and DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY

For Extra Reference