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Valid for year : 2005
 
TDDB37 Distributed Systems, 4,5 ECTS credits.
/Distribuerade system/

For:   C   CII   D   DI   IT   SOC  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 40
Rec. self-study hours: 80

  Area of Education: Technology

Subject area: Computer Science/Computer Engineering

  Advancement level (A-D): D

Aim:
The course presents modern theories and principles for distributed systems together with an overview of techniques, algorithms and tools used for creating distributed systems.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
TDDB12 Concurrent Programming and operating system or TDDA 47 Real Time and Concurrent Programming (or another equivalent course).

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:
The course consists of lectures and laboratory assignments.

Course contents:
Introduction, models and overall architecture of distributed systems, services and different forms of transparency in distributed systems, communication in distributed systems, distributed heterogeneous applications and CORBA, time and state in distributed systems, distributed mutual exclusion, real-time distributed systems replication and fault tolerance.

Course literature:
A list of recommended literature will be available in the course information.

Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory work
2 p
1 p
 



Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies: sas-sr@ida.liu.se
Examiner: Petru Eles
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Last updated: 10/18/2004