Distributed Systems

DF14200, 2013VT

Status	Archive
School	National Graduate School in Computer Science (CUGS)
Division	SAS
Owner	Petru Eles


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Course plan

Lectures

24 hours

Recommended for

Doctoral students in computer science/systems.

The course was last given

Spring 2011

Goals

The course presents theories and principles for distributed systems together with an overview of techniques, algorithms and tools used for implementing distributed systems.

Prerequisites

Computation II

Characteristics of distributed systems
Models of distributed systems
Middleware and Case study: CORBA
Time and state: global states, logical clocks, causality and time
Fundamental algorithms: mutual exclusion and election
Replication
Peer-to-peer Systems
Large-scale distributed systems and services

Organized by

Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University

Literature

George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg: "Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design" 4th Edition, Addison Wesley Publishing Comp., 2005.

Research articles

Lecturers

Petru Eles, Niklas Carlsson

Examiner

Petru Eles

Examination

Written exam.

Credit

5 hp

Comments

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