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CS8603 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ANNA UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS REGULATION 2017

CS8603 DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS L T P C 3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVES:
 To understand the foundations of distributed systems.
 To learn issues related to clock Synchronization and the need for global state in distributed systems.
 To learn distributed mutual exclusion and deadlock detection algorithms.
 To understand the significance of agreement, fault tolerance and recovery protocols in Distributed Systems.
 To learn the characteristics of peer-to-peer and distributed shared memory systems.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Introduction: Definition –Relation to computer system components –Motivation –Relation to parallel systems – Message-passing systems versus shared memory systems –Primitives for distributed communication –Synchronous versus asynchronous executions –Design issues and challenges. A model of distributed computations: A distributed program –A model of distributed
executions –Models of communication networks –Global state – Cuts –Past and future cones of an event –Models of process communications. Logical Time: A framework for a system of logical clocks –Scalar time –Vector time – Physical clock synchronization: NTP.

UNIT II MESSAGE ORDERING & SNAPSHOTS 9
Message ordering and group communication: Message ordering paradigms –Asynchronous execution with synchronous communication –Synchronous program order on an asynchronous system –Group communication – Causal order (CO) – Total order. Global state and snapshot recording algorithms: Introduction –System model and definitions –Snapshot algorithms for FIFO channels

UNIT III DISTRIBUTED MUTEX & DEADLOCK 9
Distributed mutual exclusion algorithms: Introduction – Preliminaries – Lamport’s algorithm – Ricart-Agrawala algorithm – Maekawa’s algorithm – Suzuki–Kasami’s broadcast algorithm. Deadlock detection in distributed systems: Introduction – System model – Preliminaries – Models of deadlocks – Knapp’s classification – Algorithms for the single resource model, the AND model and the OR model.

UNIT IV RECOVERY & CONSENSUS 9
Checkpointing and rollback recovery: Introduction – Background and definitions – Issues in failure recovery – Checkpoint-based recovery – Log-based rollback recovery – Coordinated checkpointing algorithm – Algorithm for asynchronous checkpointing and recovery. Consensus and agreement algorithms: Problem definition – Overview of results – Agreement in a failure – free system – Agreement in synchronous systems with failures.

UNIT V P2P & DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY 9
Peer-to-peer computing and overlay graphs: Introduction – Data indexing and overlays – Chord – Content addressable networks – Tapestry. Distributed shared memory: Abstraction and
advantages – Memory consistency models –Shared memory Mutual Exclusion.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
 Elucidate the foundations and issues of distributed systems
 Understand the various synchronization issues and global state for distributed systems.
 Understand the Mutual Exclusion and Deadlock detection algorithms in distributed systems
 Describe the agreement protocols and fault tolerance mechanisms in distributed systems.
 Describe the features of peer-to-peer and distributed shared memory systems

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Kshemkalyani, Ajay D., and Mukesh Singhal. Distributed computing: principles, algorithms, and systems. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
2. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, “Distributed Systems Concepts and Design”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2012.

REFERENCES:
1. Pradeep K Sinha, “Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design”, Prentice Hall of India, 2007.
2. Mukesh Singhal and Niranjan G. Shivaratri. Advanced concepts in operating systems. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.
3. Tanenbaum A.S., Van Steen M., “Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms”,
Pearson Education, 2007.
4. Liu M.L., “Distributed Computing, Principles and Applications”, Pearson Education, 2004.
5. Nancy A Lynch, “Distributed Algorithms”, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, USA, 2003.

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