DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Syllabus

UNIT I

Characterization of Distributed Systems

Introduction, Examples of distributed systems, Resource sharing and the web,Challenges

System Models

 Introduction, Architectural models, Fundamental models.

Operating System Support Introduction

The operating system layer, Protection, Processes and threads, Communication and invocation, Operating system architecture.

UNIT II

Interprocess communication

Introduction, The API for the internet protocols, External data representation and
marshalling.Client Server communication, Group Communication, Case stufy:

Interprocess communication

 Introduction UNIX. Distributed objects and Remote Invocation Introduction, Communication between distributed objects, Remote procedure call, Events and notifications, Case study: Java RMI.

UNIT III

Time and Global States

Introduction, Clocks events and process states, Synchronizing physical clocks, Logical
clocks, Global states, Distributed debugging.
Coordination and Agreement

Introduction, distributed mutual exclusion, Election, Multicast communication,Consensus and related problems.

UNIT IV

Transactions and Concurrency Control

Introduction, Transactions, Nested transactions, Locks Optimistic concurrency control.
Timestamp ordering, Comparison of methods for concurrency control.

Distributed Transactions

Introduction, Flat and nested distributed transactions,Atomic commit process, Concurrency control in distributed transactions, Distributed deadlocks, Transaction recovery.

Replication

Introduction, System model and group communication, Fault-tolerant services.
Case study: The gossip architecture,CODA.

UNIT V

Distributed Shared Memory

Introduction, Design and implementation issues, Sequential consistency and Ivy case
study. Release consistency and Munin case study, Other consistency model.

Distributed File Systems

Introduction, File service architecture, Case study: Sun Network File System.
Enhancements and further developments.

Suggesting Readings:

 1.Colouris, Dollimore, Kindberg, “ Distributed Systems concepts and Design” –   5th Ed. Pearson Education, 2011

2.Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Van Steen, “ Distributed Systems “, Pearson      Education , 2010.

3.Singhal M, Shivratari N.G, “Advanced Concepts Introduction, Operating           Systems” McGraw Hill, 2001.

4.Pradeep K Sinha, “ Distributed Opearating Systems: Concepts and Design”,           Pearson Education Asia India, 2007.