4005-730-01 Distributed Systems
Course Description and Outcomes

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Prerequisites
Outcomes

An introduction to the study of distributed systems. The course covers distributed system architectures such as client-server and peer-to-peer, distributed system design issues such as communication, fault tolerance, coordination, and deadlock, distributed system middleware such as remote method invocation (RMI) and tuple space, and the theory of distributed algorithms such as logical clocks and leader election. Programming projects are required.

Prerequisite knowledge:

• Java programming
• Operating systems concepts (threads, processes, mutual exclusion, deadlock)
• Computer networking concepts (Internet, protocols, sockets, network application programming)

Prerequisite course chain:

• 4003-707, Advanced Programming
• 4003-713, Operating Systems

• The student will explain various architectures used to design distributed systems, such as client-server and peer-to-peer.
  Evaluation: Exams
   
• The student will build distributed systems using various interprocess communication techniques, such as remote method invocation, remote events, and tuple spaces.
  Evaluation: Exams, programming projects
   
• The student will build distributed systems using various techniques for tolerating partial failures, such as leasing and replication.
  Evaluation: Exams, programming projects
   
• The student will build distributed systems using various interprocess coordination techniques, such as distributed mutual exclusion, distributed monitors, and tuple spaces.
  Evaluation: Exams, programming projects
   
• The student will explain various distributed algorithms, such as logical clocks and leader election.
  Evaluation: Exams
   
• The student will analyze and explain current distributed systems research literature.
  Evaluation: Written research report, oral presentations

Distributed Systems 4005-730-01 Spring Quarter 2012

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