ECS 132, Thursday 18:25 - 21:05

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

Syllabus

Midterm Exam: 18:25 - 19:40, Nov. 3 (Thur), 2005. Bring the textbook, the lecture notes, and the additional course materials. Topics covered: Introduction, Communication, Processes, and Synchronization.

Final Exam: 18:25 - 20:00, Dec 15 (Thur), 2005. Bring the textbook, the lecture notes, and the additional course materials. Topics covered: Replication, Fault Tolerance, NFS, Web.

Distributed Congestion Control Project (Last update: Nov 15, 2005)

Class Materials

Topics	Book Chapters or Other Materials	Slides
Introduction	Chapter 1	PDF
Communication	Chapter 2, Java UDP Socket, RPC Example, RMI Tutorial	PDF
Processes	Chapter 3 OS Review: Thread	PDF
Synchronization	Chapter 5	PDF
Replication	Chapter 6	PDF
Fault Tolerance	Chapter 7	PDF
NFS	Chapter 10 (sections 1)	PDF
Web	Chapter 11 (sections 1)	PDF

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

Quizzes

Due Date	Topics Covered
Thur, 09/08	Hardware/Software Concept; Middlware and Transparency
Thur, 09/22	SUN RPC, RMI, UDP Socket, Communication Modes
Thur, 10/13	Process and Thread, Object Server