1. ECLT5820: Distributed and Mobile Systems
Dr. Michael R. Lyu
Computer Science & Engineering Department
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2. Organization of the Course
My contact info:
Michael R. Lyu
Engineering Building 1031 /
Lectures: Wed. 7 – 9:45pm; 15-min 8:15pm
Web:
Two Homework Assignments
One Mid-Term Exam and One Group Project/Report
Tutor: Mr. ZENG Jichuan
Tutor’s

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. Textbook/Reference
Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, and Tim Kindberg, Addison-Wesley, 5th edition, 2012.

5. Coursework Homework (20%) Mid-Term Exam (40%)
2 assignments. No programming.
Discussions allowed but no plagiarism.
Mid-Term Exam (40%)
November 7, 2018 (3 hours, 7-10pm in class)
Open one A-4 size paper
Covers Topics 1-8
Group Project Presentation and Report (40%)
Presentation on Dec. 12, 2018 (in class, ERB 803)
Report due on Dec. 10, 2018 (electronic version)

6. Tentative Course Outlinewk
Date
Content
Reading 1
Sept. 5
Characterization of Distributed Systems
Ch.1, 2 2
Sept. 12
Communication and RPC
Ch.3, 4, 5, 6 3
Sept. 19
Security
Ch.11 4
Sept. 26
Naming, Trading, and P2P Systems
Ch.10, 13 5
Oct. 3
Time, Coordination and Agreement
Ch.14, 15 6
Oct. 10
Concurrency Control
Ch.16a 7
Oct. 24
Transactions
Ch.16b, 17a 8
Oct. 31
Fault Tolerance and Replication
Ch.17b, 18 9
Nov. 7
Midterm Exam 10
Nov. 14
Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing
Ch.19 11
Nov. 21
Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Ethereum
Notes 12
Nov. 28
Cloud Computing
Ch.21
principle
platform
property
applica-
tions