Modern Distributed Systems and Network Coordination
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The official GTU curriculum for Modern Distributed Systems and Network Coordination (subject code 3174804) as prescribed for CS-Cyber · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 37 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 (3174804)Unit 1 Introduction to Distributed Systems
- system classifications
- role of OS and networks in distributed environments
Unit 2 Fundamentals of Architectures, Processes, and Communication
- Architectures: Overview of different system architecture types and self- management capabilities in distributed environments
- Processes: Introduction to threading concepts
- client-server roles, and code mobility
- Communication: Various forms of communication including remote procedure calls
- message-based communication
- stream-based communication, and multicast techniques
Unit 3 Naming Techniques
- Exploration of name-address structures
- flat vs. structured naming, and attribute-based naming schemes
Unit 4 Synchronization and Coordination
- Techniques for clock synchronization
- logical clocks
- mutual exclusion
- GPS coordination, and leader election strategies
Unit 5 Data Consistency, Replication, and Fault Tolerance
- Overview of consistency models
- replica control
- client/server reliability
- distributed commits, and recovery
Unit 6 Security
- Introduction to Security- Security Threats
- Policies, and Mechanisms
- Design Issues
- Basics of Cryptography
- Secure Channels- Authentication
- Message Integrity and Confidentiality
- Secure Group Communication
- Access Control- General Issues in Access Control
- Secure Mobile Code
- Denial of Service
- Security Management- Key Management
- Secure Group Management
- Authorization Management
Unit 7 Categories of Distributed System
- Consistency and Replication
- Fault Tolerance
- Security: Distributed Object-based System
- Distributed File System
- Distributed Web-based System
- Distributed Coordination based System