Distributed Systems BCS515D

Module 1 Overview

CHARACTERIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: Introduction, Focus on resource sharing, Challenges.

REMOTE INVOCATION: Introduction, Request-reply protocols, Remote procedure call, Introduction to Remote Method Invocation.

Module 2 Overview

DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS: Introduction, File service architecture.

NAME SERVICES: Introduction, Name services and the Domain Name System, Directory services.

Module 3 Overview

TIME AND GLOBAL STATES: Introduction, Clocks, events and process states, Synchronizing Physical clocks, Logical time and logical clocks, Global states

Module 4 Overview

COORDINATION AND AGREEMENT: Introduction, Distributed mutual exclusion, Elections, Coordination and agreement in group communication, Consensus and related problems.

Textbook: Chapter -15.1-15.5

Module 5 Overview

DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONS: Introduction, Flat and nested distributed transactions, Atomic commit protocols, Concurrency control in distributed transactions, Distributed deadlocks, Transaction recovery.

REPLICATION: Introduction.

Textbook: Chapter -17.1-17.6, 18.1