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.
- 3 classes: Introduction to foundations and architectures.
(Ch. 4,5, Paper by Bolosky et al.)
- 6 classes: Distributed Mutual Exclusion and Deadlock
Detection (Ch 6,7, including overview of Ch 2,3 as needed)
- 6 classes: Distributed File Systems (Ch 9, papers on
CODA, Sprite, DFS)
- 3 classes:Distributed Shared Memory (Ch 10)
- 4 classes:Distributed Scheduling (Ch 11)
- 4 classes:Security and Protection in Distributed
Systems (Ch 14,15)
- 3 classes:Queing Theory and Performance Modeling
Anupam Joshi
Last modified: Mon Aug 16 12:24:06 EDT 1999