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410451 Distributed Systems

Teaching scheme:

Theory: 4 Hrsl Week.

Practical: 2 HrslWeek

Examination Scheme:

Theory: 100 marks

Term work: 25 Marks

Oral: 50 Marks Duration: 3 Hrs

UNIT I:

Introduction

Introduction to distributed Systems, examples of distributed systems, characteristics, goals, hardware and software concepts, design issues, resource sharing and the web, challenges. System Models: Introduction, Architectural Model, Fundamental Models, and Client Server Models.

UNIT II:

Communication

Inter process Communication: Message oriented Communication, Stream Oriented Communication

Layered Protocols: Lower Level, Transport Level and Higher-level Protocols.

Distributed Objects: RPC & LRPC, Remote Method Invocation, Events and Notifications.

UNIT III:

Distributed File Systems

Distributed File Systems: SUN NFS, CODA, Other DS, Comparisons.

Name Services: Name Entities, Locating Mobile Entities, Removing unreferenced entities, Case Studies: DNS Directory, Global Name Service, X 500 DS

UNIT IV:

Synchronization

Time and Global States: Clock Synchronization, Logical clocks, global state. Co-ordination: Election Algorithms, mutual exclusion, Distributed Transaction.

UNIT V:

Fault Tolerance

Process Resilience, Reliable client server communication, Reliable group communication, Distributed Commit and Recovery.

UNIT VI:

Case Studies

Case Studies on CORBA, Grid and Clusters.

Text Books:

1.Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Maarten van Steen,Distributed Systems "Principles and

         Paradigms" Publisher: PHI.                               .       ""

2. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore & Tim Kindberg, "Distributed Systems - Concepts and

         Design" Publisher: Pearson (LPE)

Reference Book:

1. Pradeep K. Sinha "Distributed Operating Systems Concepts and Design" Publication:    PHI.