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Course Name Distributed Systems
Course Code 25WN741
Program M.Tech. Wireless Networks & Applications (Specialising in IoT, AI, 5G, Blockchain) (For Working Professionals & Regular Students)
Credits 3
Campus Amritapuri

Syllabus

Syllabus

Introduction: Goals, Types: Distributed Computing Systems, Distributed Information Systems, Distributed Pervasive Systems.  

Architecture: Architectural Styles, Middleware Organization, System Architecture – Centralized, Decentralized, Hybrid.  

Processes: Threads, Virtualization, Application of virtual machines, Client and Server design, Code Migration. 

Communication: Fundamentals, Remote Procedure Call, Message Oriented Communication, Socket interface and messaging with sockets, Multicast Communication 

Naming: Flat – Home based solutions, DHTs. Structured – Name Space, Name Resolution, Examples – DNS, NFS. Attribute based; Coordination: Clock synchronization, Lamport’sLogical clocks, Vector clocks, Mutual Exclusion, Global Positioning, Election Algorithms 

Consistency and Replication: Introduction, Data Centric, Client Centric models, Replica Management, Consistency Protocols; Fault Tolerance: Introduction, Process Resilience, Reliable Client Server Communication, Reliable group Communication, Distributed Commit, Recovery. Introduction to security. 

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Outcome Statements (CO) 

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Understanding about the working of commonly used centralised and decentralized distributed systems such as server client models, torrents, wsn, iot etc. 

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Learning the different distributed system architectures and case study of their state of the art examples. 

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Analysing trade-offs to be considered while designing a system 

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Learning different principals of distributed system design such as Communication mechanisms, Synchronisation and Coordination algorithms, Fault tolerance mechanisms, Replica placement and Consistency management etc 

 

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Text Books / References

  1. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen, “Distributed Systems”, Third edition, Version 3.01, Published by Maarten van Steen (2017). 
  2. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair, “Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design”, Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2012.  
  3. Wan Fokkink, “Distributed Algorithms – An Intuitive Approach”, Prentice Hall, 1999 

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