DOS (B-TECH Computer Science Engineering 7-8th)

Section A

Introduction on: Introduction on to Distributed Syst em, Goals of Distributed s ystem, Har dwar e

and Software concepts , Design issues. Communication in distributed system: Layered protocols, ATM

networks, Client – Server model, Remote Procedure Calls and Group Communication. Middleware and

Distributed Operating Systems.

Section B

Synchronization in Distributed System: Clock synchronization, Mutual Exclusion, Election algorithm,

the Bully algorithm, a Ring algorithm, Atomic Transactions, Deadlock in Distributed Systems, Distributed

Deadlock Prevention, Distributed Deadlock Detection .

Section C

Processes and Processors in distributed systems: Threads, System models, Processors Allocation,

Scheduling in Distributed System, Real Time Distributed Systems.

Distributed file systems: Distributed file system Design, Distributed file system Implementation, Trends in

Distributed file systems.

Section D

Distributed Shared Memory: What is shared memory, Consistency models, Page based distributed shared

memory, shared variables distributed shared memory.

Case study MACH: Introduction to MACH, process management in MACH, communication in MACH,

UNIX emulation in MACH.