Description

Characterization of distributed systems. Distributed systems models. Interprocess communication. Distributed objects and remote invocation. Distributed file systems. Name services. Time and global state. Coordination and agreement. Transactions and concurrency control. Distributed transactions. Replication. Fault-tolerance. Distributed multimedia systems. Distributed shared memory. CORBA case study

Program

Master of Computing in Information Systems

Objectives

• The student should be able to:
  • Discuss distributed systems models.
  • Identify several interprocess communication schemes.
  • Discuss sample distributed file systems.
  • Recognize the importance of synchronization in distributed systems.
  • Discuss data replication schemes.
  • Identify how to add fault-tolerance support.
  • Experiment with sample case studies such as CORBA.