Distributed operating system
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Distributed operating system Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Distributed operating system (subject code 2160710) as prescribed for Computer Engineering · Semester 6 divides the course into 6 units, covering 33 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2160710)Unit 1 Introduction to distributed Systems
- Definition and goals
- Hardware and Software concepts
- Design issues 06 hours
Unit 2 Communication in Distributed System
- Computer Network and Layered protocols
- Message passing and related issues
- Client Server model & its implementation
- remote procedure call and implementation issues
- Case Studies: SUN RPC, DEC RPC 02 hours
Unit 3 Synchronization in distributed systems
- Clock synchronization and related algorithms
- mutual exclusion
- Deadlock in distributed systems
Unit 4 hours
- 10% 4 Processes and processors in distributed systems: Threads
- system model
- processor allocation
- scheduling in distributed systems: Load balancing and sharing approach
- fault tolerance
- Real time distributed systems
- Process migration and related issues 03 hours
Unit 5 Distributed File Systems
- features & goal of distributed file system
- file models
- file accessing models
- file sharing semantics
- file caching scheme
- file replication
- fault tolerance
- trends in distributed file system
- case study. 04 hours
Unit 6 Distributed Shared Memory
- general architecture of DSM systems
- design and implementation issues of DSM, granularity
- structure of shared memory space
- consistency models
- replacement strategy
- thrashing 05 hours
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