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Admas University School of Postgraduate Studies Course Outline

This 3-credit course introduces students to distributed systems, their construction, and issues in building reliable distributed systems. Students will learn about communication in distributed systems, clock synchronization, consistency and replication methods, and fault tolerance. The course covers topics like architectures, processes, communication, naming, synchronization, consistency/replication, and fault tolerance. Students will be assessed through assignments, group work/presentations, and a final exam. The textbook is Distributed Systems by Tanenbaum and van Steen.

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Admas University School of Postgraduate Studies Course Outline

This 3-credit course introduces students to distributed systems, their construction, and issues in building reliable distributed systems. Students will learn about communication in distributed systems, clock synchronization, consistency and replication methods, and fault tolerance. The course covers topics like architectures, processes, communication, naming, synchronization, consistency/replication, and fault tolerance. Students will be assessed through assignments, group work/presentations, and a final exam. The textbook is Distributed Systems by Tanenbaum and van Steen.

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Admas University

School of Postgraduate Studies


Course Outline

Course Title: Distributed Systems


Course Code: CS 625
Credit hour: 3
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
This Course is intended to introduce to students the current developments in distributed s ystems,
their construction, issues that are involved in building reliable distributed systems, and possible
applications of distributed systems.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to
 Understand issues in developing distributed systems
 Explain
- how communication is handled in distributed systems
 Realize issues and difficulties in clock synchronization over several machines
 Learn the different methods that are used in handling consistency and replication and
how fault tolerant systems are built
Course Content
1. Introduction
 Introduction and Definition
 Goals of a Distributed System
 Types of Distributed System
2. Architectures
 Architectural Styles
 System Architecture
3. Processes
 Thread and their implementation
 Anatomy of clients

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 Servers and Design Issues
 Code Migration
4. Communication
 Network Protocols and Standards
 Remote Procedure Call
 Message-Oriented Communication
 Stream-Oriented communication
 Multicast communication
5. Naming
 Names, Identifiers, and Addresses
 Flat Naming
 Structured Naming
 Attribute-Based Naming
6. Synchronization
 Clock Synchronization
 Logical Clocks
 Mutual Exclusion
 Election algorithms
7. Consistency and Replication
 Reasons for Replication
 Data-Centric Consistency Models
 Client-Centric Consistency Models
 Replica Management
 Consistency Protocols
8. Fault Tolerance
 Introduction to Fault Tolerance
 Process Resilience
 Reliable Client-Server Communication
 Reliable Group Communication
 Distributed Commit
 Recovery
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Teaching Strategy
This course will be offered through lectures, presentations, class discussions, laboratory
reports and group work.

Method of Assessment
 Assignment…………………………………………. 20%
 Group work and presentation……………………. 30%
 Final Exam………………………………………… 50%

Teaching Support and Inputs for each content


Textbook:
 S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen, Distributed Systems, Principles and Paradigms,
Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 2006.

Reading Materials
 G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore, and T. Kindberg, Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design,
Addison Wesley, 4th edition, 2005.
 S. Tannenbaum, Computer Networks, Prentice Hall, 4th edition, 2003.
 S. Mullender, Distributed Systems, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 199

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