Distributed Systems

This course introduces the concepts and design of distributed systems.
1. Foundations: characteristics of distributed systems, architectural models, fundamental models, interprocess communication.
2. Middleware: remote method invocation, remote procedure call, name services, CORBA.
3. System Infrastructure: distributed file systems, peer-to-peer systems.
4. Distributed Algorithms: clock synchronization, logical and vector clocks, distributed mutual exclusion, election algorithms, consensus algorithms, replication and fault tolerance.

AUs	3.0 AUs
Exam	N/A
Grade Type	N/A
Maintaining Dept	N/A
Prerequisites	, CZ3006
Mutually Exclusive With	CE4013, SC4051
Not Available To Programme	REP(ASEN), REP(BIE), REP(CBE), REP(CE), REP(CVEN), REP(EEE), REP(ENE), REP(MAT), REP(ME)
Not Available To All Programme With	(Admyr 2021-onwards)
Not available as Core for programmes	N/A
Not Available as PE for programmes	N/A
Not Available as BDE/UEs for programmes	N/A
Not Offered To	N/A

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