Notion of time in distributed systems; Logical clocks, vector clocks,
bitmatrix clocks, virtual clocks; Shared memory vs. message passing;
Consensus; Byzantine agreement, agreement protocols, commit
protocols; Mutual exclusion in distributed systems; Distributed algorithms;
2, 3 tier c/s architectures; Languages for distributed computing; Linda,
CSP, DP, SR; Distributed operating systems; Distributed file systems;
Distributed databases; Distributed objects -DCOM, CORBA, Java.
- Teacher: JANAKIRAM D (CS)