The course covers fundamental models for distributed systems, inter process communication and how to handle synchronization, consistency, replication, fault tolerance and security in a distributed system. The course consist of a series of lectures and seminars that include practical assignments.
The course covers fundamental models for distributed systems, inter process communication and how to handle synchronization, consistency, replication, fault tolerance and security in a distributed system. The course consist of a series of lectures and seminars that include practical assignments. The assignments will be programming tasks that exemplify problem statements examined in the course.
explain important characteristics of distributed systems
describe architectural and fundamental models of distributed systems
explain and compare strategies for interprocess communication
explain and compare middleware models
explain and compare name services
explain the concept of logical time
use logical time to implement distributed algorithms.