Distributed Operating System
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The official GTU curriculum for Distributed Operating System (subject code 2710213) as prescribed for CE(A · Semester 1 divides the course into 9 units, covering 26 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 (2710213)Unit 1 Introduction to distributed Systems
- Definition and goals
- Hardware and Software concepts
- Design issues 3 5
Unit 2 Communication in Distributed System
- Computer Network and Layered protocols
- Message passing and related issues
- Client Server model & its implementation
Unit 3 Remote procedure call and implementation issues, Stub generation,
- Case Studies: SUN RPC, DEC RPC 5 10
Unit 4 Synchronization in distributed systems
- Clock synchronization and related algorithms
- mutual exclusion
- Deadlock in distributed systems 5 10
Unit 5 Distributed Shared Memory
- general architecture of DSM systems
- design and implementation issues of DSM, granularity
- structure of shared memory space
- consistency models
- replacement strategy
Unit 6 Resource Management
- Load balancing and Load sharing approach
Unit 8 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
Unit 9 Case study
- Chorus and their comparison