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Distributed Operating Systems and Algorithms
Randy Chow & Theodore Johnson
Addison Wesley
ISBN 0-201-49838-3

Course Outline

• Background Review
  • virtual machines
  • virtual I/O
  • virtual memory
  • synchronization
  • communication
  • scheduling
  • file systems
  • Queuing theory
• Network and Distributed Operating Systems
  • system and network architectures
  • transparency and service concepts
• Concurrent Processing and Programming Languages
  • threads
  • client/server model
  • message passing
  • concurrent programming languages
    • Notes on LINDA
    • LINDA barrier synch example
• Communication and Distributed Coordination
  • group communication
  • remote procedure calls
  • time service
  • name and directory services
  • distributed synchronization
• Distributed Processing
  • multiprocessor scheduling
  • load sharing and balancing
  • remote execution and process migration
• Distributed File Systems
  • sharing and replication
  • concurrency control
  • replication management
• Distributed Shared Memory
  • non-uniform memory access architecture
  • coherency and consistency models
• Computer Security
  • cryptography
  • distributed authentication and authorization
• Distributed Algorithms and Case Studies

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