CS8603 Distributed Systems Anna University Syllabus Regulation 17



CS8603 Distributed Systems Anna University Syllabus Regulation 17

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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