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 |
| Grade Type | |
| Prerequisite | CZ2005, CZ3006 |
| 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 BDE/UE To Programme | |
| Not Available As Core To Programme | |
| Not Available As PE To Programme | |
| Mutually Exclusive With | CE4013, SC4051 |
| Not Offered As BDE | Yes |
| Not Offered As Unrestricted Elective | |
| Exam |
Total hours per week: 3 hrs
Available Indexes
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
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| 1130 | 10719 TUT (SCEL) 1130-1220 Fri LT20 Wk2-13 | ||||
| 1200 | |||||
| 1230 | |||||
| 1300 | |||||
| 1330 | COMMON LEC (SCL4) 1330-1520 Thu LT20 | ||||
| 1400 | |||||
| 1430 | |||||
| 1500 |