Course Outline
| Topics | Duration |
| Architecture, General Systems Issues, Example Systems |
4 hours |
| Distributed control for synchronization and concurrency (will include the models for concurrent processing and transactions, theory of serializability, classes of concurrency control approaches, performance evaluation of these classes, centralized control vs. decentralized control) | 12 hours |
| Distributed commitment/termination (involves preservation of atomicity of transaction execution, blocking/non-blocking protocols, Byzantine agreement) | 6 hours |
| Resiliency in distributed systems (involves design of protocols for site failure, network partitioning, loss of messages or variable transmission delays, consistent recovery of databases/transactions/ messages) |
6 hours |
| Efficient Implementation of Communication Facilities Interprocess Communication, Shared Memory, Multicasting (kernel and physical), OS Scheduling (hand off scheduling), Scaling distributed systems over wide area networks, Implementation problems and experiences |
9 hours |
| Design and Implementation of Prototype/commercial systems (Details of Raid of Purdue, R* of IBM, Argus of MIT, Distributed Ingres of UC-Berkeley, Camelot of CMU, Locus of UCLA and some more new systems | 12 hours |
| Special Topics will be covered from latest literature | - |