next up previous contents
Next: E-Commerce Up: Easter Term 2001: Part Previous: Computer Vision

Distributed Systems

Lecturer: Dr J.M. Bacon (jmb@cl.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures: 8

Prerequisite courses: Concurrent Systems, Operating System Functions, Digital Communication, Introduction to Security


Aims


The aims of this course are to study the fundamental characteristics of distributed systems; their models and architectures; the design of distributed algorithms and applications that exploit rapidly evolving technology.


Lectures

Objectives


At the end of the course students should

Recommended books


Coulouris, G.F., Dollimore, J.B. & Kindberg, T. (1994). Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Tanenbaum, A.S. (1995). Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice-Hall.
Mullender, S. (ed.) (1993). Distributed Systems. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Bacon, J. (1997). Concurrent Systems. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).



next up previous contents
Next: E-Commerce Up: Easter Term 2001: Part Previous: Computer Vision
Christine Northeast
Wed Sep 20 15:13:44 BST 2000