This course introduces the concepts and design of distributed systems. 1. Foundations: characteristics of distributed systems, architectural models, fundamental models, interprocess communication. 2. Middleware: remote method invocation, remote procedure call, name services, CORBA. 3. System Infrastructure: distributed file systems, peer-to-peer systems. 4. Distributed Algorithms: clock synchronization, logical and vector clocks, distributed mutual exclusion, election algorithms, consensus algorithms, replication and fault tolerance.
| Academic Units | 3 |
| Exam Schedule | Tue May 06 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 09:00-11:00 |
| Grade Type | Letter Graded |
| Department Maintaining | CSC(CE) |
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| Mutually Exclusive | |
| Not Available to All Programme | (Admyr 2011-2020) |
| Index | Type | Group | Day | Time | Venue | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10520 | LEC/STUDIO | SCL4 | THU | 1330-1520 | ONLINE | Teaching Wk3 |
| 10520 | LEC/STUDIO | SCL4 | THU | 1330-1520 | LT1 | Teaching Wk1,2,4-13 |
| 10520 | TUT | SCEL | FRI | 1030-1120 | LT27 | Teaching Wk2,4-13 |
| 10520 | TUT | SCEL | FRI | 1030-1120 | ONLINE | Teaching Wk3 |
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SC4051
LEC/STUDIO | ONLINE
Teaching Wk3
SC4051
LEC/STUDIO | LT1
Teaching Wk1,2,4-13
SC4051
TUT | LT27
Teaching Wk2,4-13
SC4051
TUT | ONLINE
Teaching Wk3
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