ECS 145, Tue/Thur 14:00 - 15:15

Professor: Chi Zhang
Email: czhang AT cs dot fiu dot edu
Phone: 305-348-3751
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday  15:30 - 17:30, or by appointment.

Textbook
Distributed Systems - Concepts and Design by G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore, and T. Kindberg, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley 2005 (ISBN: 0321263545)

Syllabus

Midterm Exam: 14:00 - 15:15, Nov. 8 (Tue), 2005 (Date Changed!). Bring the textbook, the lecture notes, and the Java Synchronization Tutorial. Topics covered: Introduction, System Models, Networking and Internetworking, Operating System Support, Name Services, Transactions and Concurrency Control.

Final Exam: 14:00 - 16:00, Dec 15 (Thur), 2005. Bring the textbook, the lecture notes, and the Grid Tutorial. Topics covered: Transactions and Concurrency Control, Distributed Transactions, Replication, Web Service and Grid Computing.

Term Paper (Due date for the final paper postponed to Dec. 8)

Class Materials

Topics	Book Chapters or Other Materials	Slides
Introduction	Chapter 1	PPT
System Models	Chapter 2	PPT
Networking and Internetworking	Chapter 3 and Reference Book (1.2, 1.3, 2.6, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2)	PPT
Operating System Support	Chapter 4, Java Synchronization Tutorial	PPT
Name Services	Chapter 9	PPT
Transactions and Concurrency Control	Chapter 13	PPT
Distributed Transactions	Chapter 14	PPT
Replication	Chapter 15 (sections 1 and 5)	PPT
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing	Chapter 16
Web Service and Grid Computing	Chapter 19, Grid Tutorial	PPT

Note: Each topic will be covered in 1 ~ 2 weeks.   

Reference
Computer Networks: A System Approach by Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie, Third Edition, Morgan Kaufmann 2003 (ISBN: 1-55860-832-X).

Quizzes

Due Date	Topics Covered
Tue, 09/02	Introduction (e.g. examples of distributed applications, layerd architecture, challenges, ...)
Thur, 09/15	Failure Models, Protocol Layers, Switching
Thur, 09/29	Routing, TCP/UDP, LAN/WLAN
Tue, 10/18	Middleware, Threads, Naming
Thur, 12/01	Distributed Transaction, Two Phase Commit, Edge Chasing