CS239, Section 1 - Lectures and Reading Assignments

CS 239: Distributed Operating Systems

Spring, 2001

Lectures Reading Assignments in Chow and Johnson
Week 1
Introduction: What Is a Distributed Operating System?
Concurrent Processes and Synchronization
Week 2
Interprocess Communications in Distributed Operating Systems
Remote Procedure Calls and Transacations
Week 3
Naming in Distributed Operating Systems
Mutual Exclusion Methods for Distributed Operating Systems
Week 4
Distributed File Systems
Replicated File Systems
Week 5
Distributed Shared Memory
Causally Ordered Communications
Week 6
Election Algorithms
MIDTERM
Week 7
Byzantine Agreement and When Concensus is Possible
Security for Distributed Systems
Week 8
Security for Distributed Systems, Con't
Building Distributed Systems from Components
Week 9
Memorial Day Holiday
Network of Workstation Systems
Week 10
To be announced
To be announced