Distributed Systems

This course introduces the concepts and design of distributed systems.

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