1 Lecture Slides: Distributed Systems

NOTE: Some slides may be refined before the lecture. Latest version of slides will be printed and distributed in the class.

Category	Topic / Slides	Primary Reference: Chapter No., Book	Week
Foundations	Subject Guidelines and Information Session		1
	Introduction- Distributed Systems Concepts	Chap 1, CDK	1
	Inter-Process Communication (Socket programming and Client-Server Systems)	Partially Chap 4, CDK	2
	Thread Programming and Concurrency	Partially Chap 6.	3,4
	Foundation Revision	Observation and Assignment 1	4
Systems Models and Programming	Operating System Architecture and Distributed Systems	Chap 6, CDK	5
	Distributed System Models	Chap 2, CDK	6
	Distributed Objects and Programming: RMI programming CORBA programming	Chap 5, CDK Chap 20, CDK	7-8
Platforms and Services	Security	Chap 7, CDK (except 7.3 & 7.4)	9, 10
	Distributed File Systems	Chap 8, CDK	10, 11
	A demo: Enterprise Cloud	Aneka
	Naming Services	Chap 9, CDK	11,12

1 References

• Primary Textbook: CDK: Couloris, G, Dollimore, J. and Kinberg, T, Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design, 4th Edition,  Addison-Wesley, Pearson Education, UK, 2001, ISBN 0201-619-180. http://www.cdk4.net
• BSC: R. Buyya, S. Selvi, X. Chu, “Object Oriented Programming with Java: Essentials and Applications”, McGraw Hill, New Delhi, India, 2009., USA.
• Various Web-based material/pointers will be provided as additional reference.