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Distributed Systems

Autumn 2016.

Basic Information

Instructors:

• Bjoern Franke
• Rik Sarkar

Time/place:

• In 2016-2017 this course will run in the First semester.
• Lecture schedule:

  Tuesdays, Fridays: 9:00-9:50, Medical School (Doorway 5), Teviot Lecture Theatre.

Announcements

1. Assignement is out. See Assignement page.
2. First class is on Tuesday September 20.

Assignment

See Assignement page.

Lecture slides

1. Introduction.
2. Basic Algorithms.
3. Time and clocks.
4. Models of computation and comunication.
5. Clocks, ordering and Global Snapshots.
6. Failure detection and leader election.
7. Coursework.
8. Mutual exclusion.
9. Agreement and Multicast.
10. Maximal independent sets.
11. Termination detection.
12. Minimum spanning tree.
13. Distributed operating systems.
14. Mobile computing.
15. Distributed Object systems.
16. Mobile networking.
17. Cloud and IoT.

See Last year's web page for typical course contents.

Course structure

Final Exam: 75%. Coursework: 25% -- One programming assignment. To be done in Java.

FEEDBACK: Assignment scores and comments explaining deduction of marks. Assignment will be discussed in class. Please use that opportunity to evaluate your understanding.

Last year's web page.

Drps page for the course