CSC 523: Distributed Systems

1445 First Semester

CSC 523: Distributed Systems, 3 credit hours
 Time:   Section 1  (Female regular program) 01:00 P.M. – 04:00 P.M., Tuesday 

Date : 04-02-1445 To 23-05-1445 H. 20-08-2023 To 07-12-2023 G.

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 :  Section1 : (Female regular)  https://piazza.com/ksu.edu.sa/fall2023/csc523

 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
04-02-1445	Introduction, Characterization of Distributed Systems
11-02-1445	System Models
18-02-1445	Networking and Internetworking , Term paper proposal is due
25-02-1445	Interprocess Communication
02-03-1445	Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation
09-03-1445	Operating System Support
16-03-1445	Midterm Exam
23-03-1445	Security,  Term paper is due
30-03-1445	Presentation of term paper
07-04-1445	Distributed File System, Term project proposal
14-04-1445	Naming Service
21-04-1445	Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
28-04-1445	Web Services
05-05-1445	Midterm Break
12-05-1445
19-05-1445	Presentation of term project
26-05-1443	Final exam