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DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Lecture/theory (a) - schedule:
- Lecture 1: Master studies (HG),
lecture requirements
- Lecture 2: What is a Distributed System?
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 3: Design and Middleware.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 4: Communication in Client-Server model.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 5: Remote Procedure Call.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 6: Group Communication.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 7: Clock synchronization - part 1.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 8: Clock synchronization - part 2.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 9: Distributed Mutual Exclusion.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 10: Deadlocks.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 11: Fault tolerance.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 12: Distributed Computing Models.
In English
and in Romanian
- Lecture 13: Elections.
In English and
and in Romanian
- Lecture 14: Resource Management in Distributed Systems.
In English
and in Romanian
Lecture/Technologies (b) - schedule:
- Lecture 1: Lab requirements and final project.
- Lecture 2: First Technologies for Distributed Systems.
In English
and in Romanian
- Lecture 3: P2P.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 4: Grids.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 5: Web Services.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 6: WS standards: XML, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 7: Virtualization.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 8. Cloud computing.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 9: Service oriented architectures.
In English and
in Romanian
- Lecture 10: Ubiquitous Computing.
In English
and in Romanian
- Lecture 11. Real Time Systems.
In English
and in Romanian
- Lecture 12: Edge and Fog Computing.
In English
and in Romanian
- Lecture 13. Streaming processing systems.
In English
and in Romanian
- Lecture 14. Review of the subjects. Examination requirements.
Example of questionnaire.
Labs (Java) - schedule:
- Lab 1 - Sockets in Java. TCP Sockets. Streams, Readers and Writers for Input and Output
- Lab 2 - UDP Sockets. Multicasting. Remote Method Invocation
- Lab 3 - Bottom-up build of web services. Automated building of clients of web services.
- Lab 4 - Programming a client of a Web service. Writing a client of a public Web service.
- Lab 5 - Writing a simple web app in a PaaS. Option 1: use Azure; Option 2: use Google App Engine
- Lab 6 - Using Lambda functions from Amazon Web Services.
- Lab 7 - Using simulators for Cloud (IaaS) and Fog: CloudSim and iFogSim
Textbooks:
- Main lecture notes: Distributed Systems (in English).
- Supplementary material: D. Petcu, V. Negru, Distributed Processing (in Romanian), Ed. Universitatii de Vest, 2002
A short description of the lecture can be found here.
The page of the previous lectures (in Romanian) can be found here here.
Schedule in Winter semester of 2023/2024
Weekly meetings:
- Monday, in Romanian, 18:00-21:10 Lecture (IS), 19:40-21:10 Lab (IS group 1- odd weeks, IS group 2 - even weeks)
- Friday, in English, 18:00-19:30 Lecture (AIDC + BD + CS+ ISR), 16:20-17:50 Lab (CS - odd weeks), 19:40-21:10 Lab (AIDC - odd weeks, BD + ISR - even weeks)
In Romanian:
Week | Date | 18:00 | 19:40 | Remark |
1 | 2 Oct 2023 | Lecture 1 | Lab 1 | |
2 | 9 Oct 2023 | Lecture 2 | Lab 1 | |
3 | 16 Oct 2023 | Lecture 3 | Lab 2 | |
4 | 23 Oct 2023 | Lecture 4 | Lab 2 | |
5 | 30 Oct 2023 | Lecture 5 | Lab 3 | |
6 | 6 Nov 2023 | - | Lab 3 rescheduled in 10 Nov,16:20 | Teacher illness |
7 | 13 Nov 2023 | Lecture 6+7 | Lab 4 | |
8 | 20 Nov 2023 | Lecture 8 | Lab 4 | |
9 | 27 Nov 2023 | Lecture 9 | Lab 5 | |
10 | 4 Dec 2023 | Lecture 10 | Lab 5 | |
11 | 11 Dec 2023 | Lecture 11 | Lab 6 | |
12 | 18 Dec 2023 | Lecture 12 | Lab 6 | |
13 | 8 Jan 2024 | Lecture 13 | Lab 7 | |
14 | 15 Jan 2024 | Lecture 14 | Lab 7 | |
In English:
Week | Date | 16:20 | 18:00 | 19:40 | Remark |
1 | 6 Oct 2023 | Lab 1 | Lecture 1 | Lab 1 | |
2 | 13 Oct 2023 | | Lecture 2 | Lab 1 | |
3 | 20 Oct 2023 | Lab 2 | Lecture 3 | Lab 2 | |
4 | 27 Oct 2023 | | Lecture 4 | Lab 2 | |
5 | 3 Nov 2023 | Lab 3 | Lecture 5+6a | Lab 3 | |
6 | 10 Nov 2023 | Lab 3 (Recover) | | [Rescheduled at 16:20] | UVT's Gala |
7 | 17 Nov 2023 | Lab 4 | Lecture 6b+7 | Lab 4 | |
8 | 24 Nov 2023 | | - | - | Teacher at Iasi/Consortium Informatica |
9 | 1 Dec 2023 | | | | Public celebration |
10 | 8 Dec 2023 | | Lecture 8+9a | Lab 4 | |
11 | 15 Dec 2023 | | Lecture 9b+10 | Lab 5 | Lab from 16:20 moved at 19:40 or next week |
12 | 22 Dec 2023 | Lab 5 | Lecture 11+12a | Lab 5 | |
13 | 12 Jan 2024 | Lab 6 | Lecture 12b+13 | Lab 6 | |
14 | 19 Jan 2024 | Lab 7 | Lecture 14 | Lab 7 | |
References:
- George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair, Distributed Systems. Concepts and Design, Addison-Wesley, 2012
- D.Petcu, V.Negru, Distributed processing (in Romanian), Ed. Univ. de Vest, Timisoara, 2002.
- Joe Clabby, Web Services Explained: Solutions and Applications for the Real World, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002
- Thomas Erl, Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design, Prentice Hall PTR, 2005
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Marteen Van Steen, Distributed Systems. Principles and Paradigms, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
- Ray. Rafaels, Cloud Computing: From beginning to end, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015
- Binildas CA, Malhar Barai, Vincenzo Caselli, Service Oriented Architecture with Java. Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications, Packt Publishing Ltd., 2008
- Kenneth L. Calvert, Michael J. Donahoo. TCP/IP sockets in Java : practical guide for programmers, 2nd ed., Elsevier, 2008
- John Paul Mueller, Mining Google Web Services: Building Applications with the Google API, Sybex, 2004
- James Murty, Programming Amazon Web Services, O'Reilly, 2008
- John Long, Cloud Native Java, O Reilly, 2017
Last modification: Ocotober 1, 2023