06-6798 Distributed Systems Course Material

Handouts

Printed handouts will be made available in the School library. Please only print the handout in postscript. The pdf files contain copies of slides in colour and are intended for on-line viewing only.

• Lecture 1: Introduction ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 2: Architectures ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 3: Networking ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 4: Inter-Process Communication ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 5: Object Interaction: RMI, RPC ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Problems Class 1: Worksheet 1 (postscript)
Solutions 1 (postscript)
• Lecture 6: Operating system support ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Problems Class 2: Worksheet 2 (postscript)
Solutions 2 (postscript)
• Lecture 7: File service ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 8: Name service ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 9: Distributed algorithms ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 10: Clocks and time ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 11: Co-ordination ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Problems Class 3: Worksheet 3 (postscript)
Solutions 3 (postscript)
• Lecture 12: agreement ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 13: Transactions ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Problems Class 4: Worksheet 4 (postscript),
Solutions 4 (postscript)
• Lecture 14: Security management ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 15: authentication ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Lecture 16: Fault-tolerance ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Problems Class 5: Worksheet 5 (postscript),
Solutions 5 (postscript)
• Lecture 17: Distributed multimedia ( Handout in postscript, Slides in pdf )
• Sample exam: Questions (postscript), Solutions (postscript)

Useful links

• General
• Distributed Algorithms and Systems webpage
• Webopedia on Distributed Computing
• Mobile Computing webpage
• The living Internet
• Networking background
• Various switch animations
• Data-link Network protocol animation
• Sliding window protocol animation
• IP routing animation
• Establish connections in TCP
• Terminate connections in TCP
• More... see Computer Networks module taught by Dr Georgios K. Theodoropoulos
• Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET)
• Middleware
• Distributed Object Computing with CORBA
• Sun Java RMI
• Distributed algorithms
• Distributed algorithms animated with LYDIAN (installed in SoCS, Birmingham)
• IEEE 1394 FireWire root contention animation (SimJava applet)
• Consensus: the Big Misunderstanding

Glossary