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TDDC50 Distributed Systems, 4,5 ECTS credits.
/Distributed Systems/

For:   CS  


OBS!
Only open for students admitted to the Computer Science Master programme
 

Prel. scheduled hours:
Rec. self-study hours: 120

  Area of Education: Technology

Subject area: Computer Science, Computer Engineering
  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The course presents modern theories and principles for distributed systems together with an overview of techniques, algorithms and tools used for implementing distributed systems.
Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
TDDC38 Computation II

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
Organisation:
This cours is also given as PhD-course for graduate students at CUGS Graduate School. The course is given in an intensive format ("crash course") at a conference facility.
Course contents:
  • Characteristics of distributed systems
  • Models of distributed systems.
  • Middleware and Case study: CORBA .
  • Time and state: global states, logical clocks, causality and time.
  • Fundamental algorithms: mutual exclusion and election, termination detection, distributed routing algorithms.
  • Real-time distributed systems: clock synchronization, real-time communication, scheduling and schedulability analysis in distributed systems.
  • Fault tolerance in distributed systems: replication, fault tolerance in asynchronous and synchronous systems, stabilization.


Course literature:
Coulouris, J. Dollimore, T. Kindberg: "Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design" 3rd Edition, Addison Wesley, 2001 Research articles
Examination:
Written examination.
 3 p
/
4,5 ECTS
 
Grades are given as â?TFailâ?T or â?TPassâ?T.


Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies:
Examiner: Petru Eles
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Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 04/04/2007