Unit 1 Concepts of Distributed Systems

5 lecture hours

• Distributed computing models
• Software concepts
• Design issues in distributed systems
• Client-server model
• Basics of Network communication
• Network Models

Unit 2 Inter-process Communication

8 lecture hours

• Message Passing and its features
• IPC message format
• IPC synchronization
• multi datagram messaging
• process addressing techniques
• failure handling
• Formal Models for message passing systems
• Broadcast and converge cast on a spanning tree
• Flooding and building a spanning tree
• Constructing a DFS spanning tree with and without a specified root

Unit 3 Remote Communication

6 lecture hours

• RPC basics
• RPC implementation
• RPC Communication and Other issues
• Sun RPC, RMI basics
• RMI Implementation
• Java RMI

Unit 4 Synchronization

8 lecture hours

• Clock synchronization
• Logical clocks
• Global state
• Mutual exclusion
• Election algorithms: Bully algorithm
• Ring algorithm
• Leader election in rings
• anonymous rings
• Asynchronous rings
• synchronous rings
• election in wireless networks
• Deadlocks in Distributed systems
• Deadlocks in Message communication

Unit 5 Distributed System Management

6 lecture hours

• Resource management
• Task management approach
• Load balancing approach
• Load sharing approach
• Process Management
• Process migration
• fault tolerance

Unit 6 Distributed Shared Memory

4 lecture hours

• Hardware DSM, Design issues in DSM systems
• Implementation issues
• Heterogeneous and other DSM systems

Unit 7 Naming

3 lecture hours

• Basic concepts
• System oriented names
• Object locating mechanisms
• Directory service

Unit 8 Google File system and Hadoop distributed file system 2 10

• Subject Code: 3163210 w.e.f