Unit 1 Fundamentals of Distributed System

3 lecture hours

• Definition of a Distributed System
• Goals of a Distributed System
• Types of Distributed Systems
• Basics of Operating System and Networking

Unit 2 Basics of Architectures, Processes, and Communication

8 lecture hours

• Architectures - Types of System Architectures
• Self-management in Distributed Systems
• Processes - Basics of Threads
• Roles of Client and Server
• Code Migration
• Communication - Types of Communications
• Remote Procedure Calls
• Message-Oriented Communication
• Stream-Oriented Communication

Unit 3 Naming - Names, Identifiers, And Addresses, Flat Naming, Structured Naming,

3 lecture hours

• Attribute Based Naming

Unit 4 Synchronization - Clock Synchronization, Logical Clocks, Mutual Exclusion,

5 lecture hours

• Global Positioning Of Nodes
• Election Algorithms

Unit 5 Consistency, Replication and Fault Tolerance-Introduction To Replication,

10 lecture hours

• Data Centric Consistency Models
• Client-Centric Consistency Models
• Replica Management
• Consistency Protocols
• Basics of Fault Tolerance
• Process Resilience
• Reliable Client Server Communication
• Reliable Group Communication
• Distributed Commit

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

9 lecture hours

• Consistency and Replication
• Fault Tolerance
• Security: Distributed Object- based System
• Distributed File System
• Distributed Web-based System
• Distributed Coordination based System