ECS 132, Thursday 18:25 - 21:05

Professor: Chi Zhang
Email: czhang AT cs dot fiu dot edu
Phone: 305-348-3751
Office: ECS 361
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday  15:30 - 17:30, or by appointment.. .

Textbook
Distributed Systems - Principles and Paradigms by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen, Prentice Hall 2002 (ISBN: 0-13-088893-1).

Prerequisite
COP 4610 (Operating Systems Principles) or equivalent.

Description
Advanced topics in operating system design; distributed systems and middleware; parallel computing;  issues from concurrency control, replication management, and fault-tolerance; system case study. Each student will also conduct a term project on distributed congestion control. Quizzes will be given in some classes.

Topics
Introduction
Communication
Processes
Synchronization
Consistency and Replication
Fault Tolerance
Web-based Distributed Systems
Distributed File Systems

Grading
Quizzes: 15%
Midterm: 30% 
Final: 30%
Term Project: 25%

Deadline to drop a course with a DR grade: Nov. 6.

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