CS6223 Distributed Systems

Aims and Objectives

• introduce distributed system principles and design issues
• investigate implementation issues of distributed systems
• introduce international and industry standards on distributed systems development

Outlines

• Distributed time and clocks
• Inter-Process Communication (IPC) in distributed sys
• Client-server model and programming using RPCs (remote procedure calls)
• Distributed file systems
• Internetworking and naming services
• Network Security

Assessment

• Course work 30% (one assignment 20%, one mid-term quiz 10%)
• Final Exam 70% (2-hour examination)
• For a student to pass the subject, at least 30% of the total mark for the final exam must be obtained.

Teaching Asistant

Mr. Baobing Wang (brian.k.wong@student.cityu.edu.hk, Tel. 2788-8030)

Text Books and E-resources

• Coulouris, G.F, Dollimore, J., and Kindberg, T., Distributed Systems - concepts and design (4th Ed), Addison-Welsley, 2005.
• A. S. Tanenbaum and M. V. Steen, Distributed Systems - principles and paradigms (2nd Ed), Pearson, 2007.
• Distributed System Course by Paul Krzyzanowski
• List of Useful UNIX Shell Commands
• Source Codes of Demo Programs during lectures: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~jia/C/

Teaching Schedule

Week	Topic (Lecture Nodes)	Tutorials
1 & 2	Distributed Clocks	clock-tute Solution
3	Inter Process Communication (IPC) and Sockets	IPC-tute Solution
4	Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)	RPC-tute Solution
5	Advanced RPC	RPC2-tute
6	Inter-networking	networking-tute Solution
7	Domain Name System (DNS)	DNS-tute Solution
8	UNIX File System	Unix&DFS-tute Solution
9	Distributed File Systems (DFS)
10	Transaction Processing Systems	Transaction-tute Solution
11&12	Security	security-tute Solution
13	Review

Assignment

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