--- Notes ---

• The course will be offered in English, and all course materials and tutorials will be offered in English as well. The course is suitable for international students in Master of Science in Applied Computer Science programme.

--- Course Materials ---

For access to course notes (in pdf - format) click on the section headings below.

• I. Introduction

• II. Fundamental Concepts of Distributed Systems - System models; Review of network architectures; Interprocess communication

• III. Time and Global States - Clocks and concepts of time; Synchronization; Global states

• IV. Coordination - Distributed mutual exclusion; Multicast; Byzantine problems

• V. Distribution and Operating Systems - Protection mechanisms; Processes and threads

• VI. Distributed File Systems - Network file system (NFS)

• VII. Middleware - Distributed object models; Remote invocation; CORBA; Name services

• VIII. Security - Cryptographic algorithms; Digital signatures

--- Literature ---

1. (text book) George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, ©Pearson Education 2001. [web site for this book]
2. (reference text) Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Distributed Operating Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1994. [web site for this book]
3. (reference text) Nancy A. Lynch, Distributed Algorithms, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996. [web site for this book]