mca Syllabus

Distributed Computing
Code: IT 703 D
Contacts: 3L
Credits: 3
Allotted Hrs: 45L

Fundamentals [4L]
Introduction, Models and Features, Concept of distributed operating system, Issues in design of a distributed operating system.

Message Passing [8L]
Good message passing system, IPC, Synchronization, Buffering, Multi datagram messages, Encoding & decoding techniques, Process addressing, Failure handling, Group communication; Remote procedure calls (RPC) - Models, Communication protocols, RPC, Lightweight RPC.

Distributed Shared Memory [4L]
Architecture, Thrashing, Granularity, Advantages.

Synchronization [4L]
Introduction, Clock Synchronization, Event handling, Mutual Exclusion; Deadlock – Conditions, Avoidance, Prevention, Recovery.

Resource & process Management [8L]
Features of a good scheduling algorithm, Task assignment approach, Load balancing & load sharing approach, Introduction to process management, Process migration, Threads.

Distributed Files Systems [8L]
Introduction, Features, Models, Accessing models; sharing Semantics & caching schemes, replication, Fault Tolerance, Atomic transactions.

Naming [5L]
Introduction, Features, Fundamental Terminologies & concepts, System oriented names, Human oriented names, Name caches.

Security [4L]
Potential attacks to computer system, Cryptography, Authentication, digital signatures, Access Control.

Books
1. Distributed operating Systems, Concepts & design - Sinha Pradeep K.; PHI.
2. Distributed Operating System - Tanenbaum Andrews S. – Pearson.
3. Distributed Systems, Concepts & design - Coulouris George, Dollimore Jean, Kindberg Tim; Pearson.
4. Operating System Concepts - Silberschatz Galvin; John Wiley, 5th Edition.