Weekly Outline

This is a rough outline of the course, and subject to change as we progress through the semester. It is your responsibility to read the material to be covered in the class ahead of time. Chapter numbers from the text, as well as references to papers are provided for your convenience.

Date	Topic	Chapter
08/31, 09/05, 09/07	Introduction to foundations and architectures.	Ch 4,5, Paper by Bolosky et al
09/12, 09/14, 09/19, 09/21, 09/26, 09/28	Distributed Mutual Exclusion and Deadlock Detection	Ch 6,7, including overview of Ch 2,3 as needed
10/03, 10/05, 10/10, 10/12, 10/17, 10/19	Distributed File Systems	Ch 9, papers on CODA, Sprite, DFS
10/24, 10/26, 10/31	Distributed Shared Memory	Ch 10
11/02, 11/07, 11/09, 11/14	Distributed Scheduling	Ch 11
11/16, 11/21, 11/23, 11/28	Security and Protection in Distributed Systems	Ch 14,15
11/30, 12/05	Queing Theory and Performance Modeling	-

Anupam Joshi