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Course Detail

Course Name Distributed Computing
Course Code 18CA339
Program M. C. A., M. C. A. ( Offered at Mysuru Campus )
Credits Three
Year Taught 2018
Degree Postgraduate (PG)
School School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering
Campus Kochi, Mysuru, Amritapuri

Syllabus

Introduction to Distributed Systems – Primitives for Distributed Communication – Design Challenges – Distributed Systems like Models for Distributed Computations – Overview of Distributed Databases -Structure of Distributed Databases. Virtual Time in Distributed System: Logical Time – Scalar Time – Vector Time Lamport’s Algorithm – Case Study -Logical Clocks in Riak – Global and Snapshot Recording Algorithms – Model – Snapshot Algorithms for FIFO Channels – Chandy–Lamport Algorithm – Snapshot Algorithms for Non FIFO Channels. Message Ordering And Group Communication – Message Ordering Paradigms – Asynchronous anSynchronous Execution – Causal Order – Total Order – Group Communication – Case Study (Horus , Totem) –Distributed Multicast Algorithms. Distributed Mutual Exclusion: Lamports Algorithm -Ricart– Agrawala Algorithm – Quorum-based Mutual Exclusion Algorithms. Deadlock Detection : Models of Deadlock – Classification of Deadlock Detection Algorithms -Mitchell and Merritt’s algorithm for the Single Resource Model – Chandy–Misra–Haas Algorithm For The AND/OR Model. Consensus and Agreement Algorithms and Failure Detection – Agreement in Failure Free Systems and Systems with Failures –The Consensus Problem – Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Case Study : Condor. Distributed

Database Design: Design Strategies – Design issues – Fragmentation and Allocation. Semantic Data Control: View Management Distributed Query Processing: Overview of Query Processing – Transforming Global Queries to Fragment Queries – Query Decomposition – Localization of Distributed data. Distributed Transaction Processing and Concurrency Control – 2PC -3PC.

Text Books

  1. Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, MukeshSinghal, “Distributed Computing: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems”, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  2. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimaore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair,“Distributed Systems: Concepts & Design”, Fifth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2012.
  3. Douglas Thain, Todd Tannenbaum, and MironLivny, “Distributed Computing in Practice: The Condor Experience”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience – Grid Performance, Volume 17, Issue 2-4, 2005.
  4. M.TamerOzsu, PartrickValduriez,“Principles of Distributed Database Systems”, Third Edition, Springer, 2010.

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