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Distributed Systems

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

No. of lectures: 8

Prerequisite courses: Concurrent Systems and Applications, Operating Systems, Digital Communication I, 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

Tanenbaum, A.S. & van Steen, M. (2002). Distributed Systems. Prentice-Hall.
Coulouris, G.F., Dollimore, J.B. & Kindberg, T. (2001). Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design. Addison-Wesley (3rd ed.).
Mullender, S. (ed.) (1993). Distributed Systems. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Bacon, J. (1997). Concurrent Systems. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Bacon, J. & Harris, T. (2003). Operating Systems: Distributed and concurrent software design. Addison-Wesley.


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