Not offered in the current semester · Last offered AY2025/2026 Semester 2

Distributed Systems

Last offered — AY2025/2026 Semester 2

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.

Total hours per week: 3 hrs

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SC4051

Distributed Systems

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Not Available To Programme
Not Available To All Programme With	(Admyr 2011-2020)
Not Available As BDE/UE To Programme
Not Available As Core To Programme
Not Available As PE To Programme
Mutually Exclusive With	CE4013, CZ4013
Not Offered As BDE
Not Offered As Unrestricted Elective	Yes