1. Distributed Systems
Docent: Vincent Naessens

2. Distributed Systems course overview & practical arrangements

3. Course material

4. Course material Book Slides and assessments:
Title: Distributed systems – principles and paradigms (second edition)
Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Maarten Van Steen
Slides and assessments:

5. Overview of the book Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Architectures
Chapter 3: processes
Chapter 4: communication
Chapter 5: naming
Chapter 6: sychronisation
Chapter 7: Consistency and replication
Chapter 8: fault tolerancy
Chapter 9: security
Chapter 10: distributed object-based systems
Chapter 11: distributed file systems
Chapter 12: distributed web-based systems
Chapter 13: distributed coordination based systems

6. Overview of the book Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Architectures
1.1. Definition of distributed system
1.2. Goals
1.3. Types of distributed systems
Chapter 2: Architectures
2.1. Architectural styles
2.2. System architectures
2.3. Archictectures versus middleware

7. Overview of the book Chapter 3: processes Chapter 4: communication
3.1. Threads
3.2. Virtualization
3.3. Clients
3.4. Servers
Chapter 4: communication
4.1. Fundamentals
4.2. Remote procedure calls
4.3. Message-oriented communication

8. Overview of the book Chapter 5: naming Chapter 6: sychronisation
5.1. Names, identifiers and addresses
5.2. Flat naming
5.3. Structured naming
5.4. Attribute-based naming
Chapter 6: sychronisation
6.1. Clock synchronisation
6.2. Logical clocks
6.3. Mutual exclusion
6.4. Global positioning of nodes
6.5. Election algoritms

9. Overview of the book Chapter 7: Consistency and replication
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Data-centric consistency models
7.3. Client-centric consistency models
7.4. Replication management
7.5. Consistency protocols
Chapter 8: fault tolerancy
8.1. Introduction to fault tolerance
8.2. Process resilience
8.3. Reliable client-server communication
8.4. Reliable group communication
8.5. Distributed commit
8.6. Recovery

10. Overview of the book Chapter 10: distributed object-based systems
10.1. Architecture
10.2. Processes
10.3. Communication
Chapter 11: distributed file systems
11.1. Architecture
Chapter 12: distributed web-based systems
12.1. Architecture
12.2. Processes
12.3. Communication
12.6. Consistency and replication

11. Labo sessions & practica
Labo 1 & 2 (25% van de punten):
Socket communication and datagrams in Java
Labo 3 (25% van de punten):
Remote Method Invocation in Java
Labo 4 & 5 (50% van de punten):
Remote Method Invocation in Java (extensions)

12. Labo sessions & practica
labo 1 en 2: Socket comm. and datagrams in Java
uitvoeren op 30 september 2011 en 14 oktober 2011
indienen op 21 oktober 2011
verdedigen op 28 oktober 2011
labo 3: Remote Method Invocation (RMI) in Java
uitvoeren op 28 oktober 2011
indienen op 11 november 2011
verdedigen op 18 november 2011
labo 4 en 5: JavaRMI - extensions
uitvoeren op 18 november 2011 en 2 december 2011
indienen op 9 december 2011
verdedigen op 16 december 2011

13. Course evaluation Mondeling examen (10 punten) Labosessies (10 punten)
3 a 4 theorievragen
Labosessies (10 punten)
3 verslagen en verdedigingen