Lecture Notes

Lecture Slides

Slide sets will be available here before each lecture.
See also below for additional slide material for background reading.

Note that the slide sets are grouped by chapters, not by specific lecture slots. The next chapter will start immediately after the previous one is completed.

• Course information
• 1. Fundamentals of Distributed Systems
• 2. Models of Distributed Systems
• 3. Communication in Distributed Systems
• 4. CORBA^*
• 5. Peer-to-Peer Systems
• 6. Time and Global State in Distributed Systems
• 7. Distributed Mutual Exclusion and Election
• 8. Replication
• 9. Fault Tolerance
• 10. Distributed Real-Time Systems, Time
• 11. Distributed Real-Time Systems, Communication
• 12. Outlook
• 13. Exam training (as far as time permits)

Reading Directions for the course book

• For Coulouris et al., 5th edition: [PDF]
• For Coulouris et al., 4th edition: [PDF]

^* As background reading: CORBA slides (TDDD05) with code examples (Java) and more details for illustration

Reading directions and the slide set on exam-training from the last lecture can also be found on the exam page.

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