Course Syllabus

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Course Syllabus

• Instructor Hsung-Pin Chang
• hpchang_at_cs.nchu.edu.tw
• TA???
• s9456032_at_cs.nchu.edu.tw
• Web Site http//www.osnet.nchu.edu.tw

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Text Book

• Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms
  by Andrew Tanenbaum and M. van Steen. Prentice
  Hall

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Syllabus (Topics)

• Introduction
• Communication
• Process
• Naming
• Synchronization
• Consistency and Replication
• Fault Tolerance
• Security Access Control
• Distributed Object-Based Systems
• COBRA
• Distributed DOM
• Distributed File Systems
• SUN Network File System
• The Coda File System

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Grading

• Two Exams
• Two-three projects
• RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
• Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
• Server implementation
• Multiple process
• Multi-threaded
• Single process with nonblocking system call
  (select)