Distributed Systems
COP5615 - CISE - University of Florida

Instructor: Alireza Entezari, Assistant Professor, CISE.

Class time: Tue 9:35-10:25am, Thu 8:30-10:25am

Room NEB 201

Office Hours: Tue,Thu 10:45-11:45am or by appointment. Room E334

Teaching Assistants:

P. Harsh.

Office Hours: Mondays 9:30-11:00am. Room E309

I. Shin.

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00am-noon. Room E309

Textbook:

• Distributed Operating Systems & Algorithms, R. Chow and T. Johnson, Addison Wesley
• Distributed Systems. Principles and Paradigms, A. Tanenbaum, M. Van Steen, Second Edition, Pearson / Prentice Hall

Outline of course topics: (subject to change)

• Review of fundamentals of operating systems
• Basic concepts of distributed systems
• Concurrent processes and threads
• Interprocess communication and coordination
• Scheduling in distributed systems
• Distributed file systems
• Shared memory in distributed operating systems*
• Distributed computer security*

* if time permits.

Course Material:

Note that I will use WebCT to make announcements and assign readings. You are expected to read your WebCT mail and announcements regularly.

• Lecture notes can be found in Here (Courtesy of Dr. Fedorova).
• Assignment1 is posted and is due January 28, 2008.
• Assignment2 is posted and is due February 11, 2008.
• Assignment3 is posted and is due March 04, 2008.
• Term paper is posted. The proposal is due February 19, 2008 and the paper is due on March 20, 2008.
• Assignment4 is posted and is due April 11, 2008.
• Final Exam (29E) is on April 29, 2008 at 5:30-7:30pm.

Penalty for late assignment submissions is 10% per day.