1. © Chinese University, CSE Dept. Distributed Systems / 0 - 1 ECLT5820: Distributed and Mobile Systems Dr. Michael R. Lyu Computer Science & Engineering Department The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2. © Chinese University, CSE Dept. Distributed Systems / 0 - 2 Organization of the Course  My contact info: Michael R. Lyu Engineering Building 927 lyu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk 39438429  Lectures: Wed. 7 – 9:30pm; 15-min break @ 8:15pm  Web: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~eclt5820http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~eclt5820  Email: eclt5820@cse.cuhk.edu.hk  Two Homework Assignments  One Mid-Term Exam and One Group Project/Report  Tutor: Mr. SU Yuxin  Tutor’s e-mail: yxsu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

3. © Chinese University, CSE Dept. Distributed Systems / 0 - 3 What You Will Learn  Problems that occur during construction of distributed and mobile systems.  Principles and techniques to solve them.  Infrastructure and components for distributed and mobile systems.  System properties, attributes, and the associated approaches.  Practical applications of distributed and mobile systems, particularly in the modern society.

4. © Chinese University, CSE Dept. Distributed Systems / 0 - 4 Textbook/Reference  Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, and Tim Kindberg, Addison-Wesley, 5th edition, 2012.

5. © Chinese University, CSE Dept. Distributed Systems / 0 - 5 Coursework  Homework (20%) –2 assignments. No programming. –Discussions allowed but no plagiarism.  Mid-Term Exam (40%) –November 4, 2015 (3 hours, 7-10pm in class) –Open one A-4 size paper –Covers Topics 1-7  Group Project Presentation and Report (40%) –Presentation on Dec 2, 2015 (in class) –Report due on Dec. 9, 2015 (electronic version)

6. © Chinese University, CSE Dept. Distributed Systems / 0 - 6 Tentative Course Outline 1Characterization of Distributed Systems (1, 2) 2Communication and Remote Procedure Call (3, 4, 5, 6) 3Security (11) 4Naming, Trading, and P2P Systems (10, 13) 5Time, Coordination and Agreement (14, 15) 6Concurrency Control (16a) 7Transactions (16b, 17a) 8Fault Tolerance and Replication (17b, 18) 9Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing and RFID (19) 10Cloud Computing (21) property platform principle applica- tions