ICT 6544: Distributed Systems

Announcement

• Midterm Exam 1 will be held on 27.05.17 from 6:00 - 7:00 PM.
• Class schedule during Ramadan: from 4:00 - 5:45 PM.

Course Synopsis

This course introduces the concepts communication model: socket, remote procedure call, remote object invocation, message oriented communication; naming service; clock synchronization, distributed object based system: CORBA, distributed COM; distributed file system, replication, distributed transactions; security management, recovery. The course includes continuous assessment in the form of examinations.

Reference Book

• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms in C by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten Van Steen
• Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API by W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, and Andrew M. Rudoff

Assessment

• Midterm Exam 1: 20%
• Midterm Exam 2: 20%
• Term Paper: 20%
• Final Exam: 40%

Class Lectures

All the lectures will be available at learning.iict.buet.ac.bd