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Distributed Systems

Lecturer: Professor J.M. Bacon

No. of lectures: 8

Prerequisite courses: Concurrent Systems and Applications (if available), Operating Systems, Digital Communication I, Introduction to Security

Aims

The aims of this course are to study the fundamental characteristics of distributed systems and their implications on software design; their models and architectures; the design of distributed algorithms and applications.

Lectures

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

Recommended reading

* Bacon, J. & Harris, T. (2003). Operating systems: distributed and concurrent software design. Addison-Wesley.
Tanenbaum, A.S. & van Steen, M. (2002). Distributed systems. Prentice Hall.
Coulouris, G.F., Dollimore, J.B. & Kindberg, T. (2005, 2001). Distributed systems, concepts and design. Addison-Wesley (4th, 3rd eds.).
Mullender, S. (ed.) (1993). Distributed systems. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).



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