GERPE
Art Humanities and Social Sciences
Business & Management
Science, Technology & Society
Liberal Studies
Liberal Arts
All GERPE
UE
Accountancy
Art, Design & Media
Bioengineering
Biological Sciences
Business
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Computer Engineering
Civil Engineering
Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
Chinese
Communication Studies
Computer Science
Economics
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
English
Engineering
History
Humanities and Social Sciences
Linguistics & Multilingual Studies
National Insitute of Education
Mathematical Sciences
Mechanical Engineering
Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre
Philosophy
Physics and Applied Physics
Public Policy And Global Affairs
Psychology
Sociology
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Sport Science & Management
All unrestricted electives
AU: 3.0
Programme: CSC(CE)
This course introduces the concepts and design of distributed systems. 1. Foundations: characteristics of distributed systems, architectural models, fundamental models, interprocess communication. 2. Middleware: remote method invocation, remote procedure call, name services, CORBA. 3. System Infrastructure: distributed file systems, peer-to-peer systems. 4. Distributed Algorithms: clock synchronization, logical and vector clocks, distributed mutual exclusion, election algorithms, consensus algorithms, replication and fault tolerance.
Comments
Programme: CSC(CE)
This course introduces the concepts and design of distributed systems. 1. Foundations: characteristics of distributed systems, architectural models, fundamental models, interprocess communication. 2. Middleware: remote method invocation, remote procedure call, name services, CORBA. 3. System Infrastructure: distributed file systems, peer-to-peer systems. 4. Distributed Algorithms: clock synchronization, logical and vector clocks, distributed mutual exclusion, election algorithms, consensus algorithms, replication and fault tolerance.