DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Modified Syllabus for –RA15 – 2017 Admitted Students

UNIT – I
Introduction to Distributed Systems: Goals Hardware Concepts Software – design, distributed
databases, CAP theorem, Communication client server model -remote procedure call - group
communication.

UNIT – II
Synchronization: Clock synchronization - mutual exclusion - election atomic transactions - dead
locks. Process and Processors: Threads - System models processor allocation - scheduling fault
tolerance

UNIT – III
Real time distributed systems, Distributed file systems: File system design and implementation -
trends in distributed file systems.

UNIT - IV
Cloud Computing : Defining Cloud Computing, Components of Cloud Computing, Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), Benefits and drawbacks of Cloud Computing.

UNIT - V
Cloud Programming and Software Environments: features of cloud platforms, parallel and
distributed programming paradigms, programming support of Google App engine

Amazon Web Services programming, Microsoft Azure programming Support, emerging Cloud
Software environments.

TEXT BOOKS:

1.      Andrew S.Tanenbaum, “Distributed Operating System”, Prentice Hall

International Inc.1995.

2.      George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg, “Distributed Systems:

Concepts and Design”, Wesley Pearson Education, 2001.

 
REFERENCE BOOKS
 1.      George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair, “Distributed
Systems: Concepts and Design”, 5th Edition, Wesley, 2011.

2.      Paolo Sivilotti, “Introduction to Distributed Systems”, Addison-Wesley, 2005.

 
WEB LINKS:

1.      http://www.gmrit.org/resources/syllabus_mca.pdf

2.      books.google.co.in/books?isbn=3540401962.