CSCE 455/855: Distributed Operating Systems

Fall 2008, MWF 10:30-11:20am

Room 118, Avery Hall

Announcements:

· Midterm2 is scheduled in class on Nov 24.

· Homework4 is posted online (due Dec 3).

· Programming Assignement3 is posted online (due Dec 5).

Syllabus

Class Roster

Lecture Notes	Reading List	References
Introduction	Chap 1
Process	Chap 3
RPC	Chap4.1 & 4.2	RFC 1831: RPC Specification RFC 1832: XDR Specification RPC Examples at RPI SUN Short Course of JAVA/RMI
MOM	Chap 4.3
Stream-Oriented & Multicast Communication	Chap 4.4 & 4.5
Naming	Chap 5.1 & 5.2
DHT	Chap 5.2
Structured Naming and DNS	Chap 5.3	OReilly-DNS-and-BIND
Synchronization-Logical Clocks	Chap 6.1 & 6.2
Mutual Exclusion and Election Algorithms	Chap 6.3 & 6.5
Distributed Transactions
Consistency and Replication	Chap 7
Fault Tolerance	Chap 8
Cryptography	Chap 9.1.3
Secure Channels	Chap 9.2
Access Control	Chap 9.3
Security Management	Chap 9.4
Distributed Web-Based Systems	Chap 12

Assignments	Handouts
Homework1 Programming Assignment1 Submit assignments on-line Instructions Homework2 Programming Assignment2 Submit assignments on-line Instructions Homework3 Programming Assignment3 Submit assignments on-line Instructions	Some basic information on Sockets Sockets by Douglas Niehaus Unix fork, exec, and pipes by Douglas Niehaus RFC 1035

Homework4