CSC 523: Distributed Systems

1438-1439 First Semester

CSC 523: Distributed Systems, 3 credit hours
Time:   Section 1 (Male regular program) 04:00 P.M. – 07:00 P.M., Sunday
            Section 2 (Female regular program) 01:00 P.M. – 04:00 P.M., Monday
Date : 26-12-1438– 10-04-1439 H.

Location: Room
Instructor: Dr. Iehab AL-Rassan, office phone: [phone], email: [e-mail]
Text book: George Coulouris, Jean Dooimore, Tim Kindberg, Distributed Systems:
Concepts and Design (Fifth edition), Addison-Wesley publishers Limited, 2012
Office Hours: Monday 11 A.M –1 P.M, (This might change – always check my home page first)
Course website :
Section2 : (Female regular)  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KSUcsc523-1-39
 
 Course Objectives:
This course has as a first objective to introduce the basic concepts upon which distributed systems at large and distributed operating systems in particular rely. The overall architecture of distributed systems along with their different components are then studied in depth, with a focus on design issues, design problems, solutions and performance issues. A term paper and project will help cement the acquired theoretical concepts.
Suggested text books and reference material:
1.      G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore, T. Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Addison Wesley.
2.      A.S. Tannenbaum , Modern Operating Systems, Prentice Hall
3.      C, Brown, UNIX Distributed Programming, Prentice Hall.
4.      Selected papers
Prerequisite: CSC 502
You are strongly expected to have basic knowledge of the subjects of Computer Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming , Computer Networks and Computer Architecture.
Syllabus
Characterization of Distributed Systems
System models
Networking and Internetworking
Interprocess Communication
Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation
Operating System Support
Security
Distributed File System
Name Service
Peer-To-Peer Systems
Time and Global States
Coordination and Agreement
Transactions and Concurrency Control
Distributed Transactions
Replication
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Distributed Multimedia Systems
Distributed Shared Memory
Web Services
1.      Assignments
· You have to post one question and its answer on the course website after every lecture. Also, you are required to evaluate someone else’s posted question and its answer from the previous lecture, giving score out of 5.
· Some exercises from the text book. 　
2.      Term Paper
One page proposal of the term paper is due on the third week.
A term paper in the area of mobile operating systems (Android OS, IPhone IOS, Symbian OS, Blackberry, or Windows phone OS) will be due on the week after the midterm.
3.      Term Project
One page proposal of the term project is due on the second week after the midterm.
A term project will be required in one of the distributed systems concepts using mobile computing.
Grading Policy
10% Assignments
20% Term Paper
20% Term project
25% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
Lecture Schedule

Class Date	Topics
27-12-1438	Introduction, Characterization of Distributed Systems
05-01-1439	System Models
12-01-1439	Networking and Internetworking, Term paper proposal is due
19-01-1439	Interprocess Communication
26-01-1439	Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation
03-02-1439	Operating System Support
10-02-1439	Security
17-02-1439	Midterm Exam
24-02-1439	Distributed File System, Term paper is due
02-03-1439	Presentation of term paper
09-03-1439	Naming Service, Term project proposal is due
16-03-1439	Time and Global states
02-03-1439	Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
23-03-1439	Web Services
30-03-1439	Presentation of term project
07-04-1439	Final exam