MTech Distributed Operating System syllabus for 1 Sem 2020 scheme 20SCE15

Module-1 Fundamentals 0 hours

Fundamentals:

What is Distributed Computing Systems? Evolution of Distributed Computing System; Distributed Computing System Models; What is Distributed Operating System? Issues in Designing a Distributed Operating System; Introduction to Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).

 

Message Passing:

Introduction, Desirable features of a Good Message Passing System, Issues in PC by Message Passing, Synchronization, Buffering, Multi-datagram Messages, Encoding and Decoding of Message Data, Process Addressing, Failure Handling, Group Communication, Case Study: 4.3 BSD UNIX IPC Mechanism.

Module-2 Remote Procedure Calls 0 hours

Remote Procedure Calls:

Introduction, The RPC Model, Transparency of RPC, Implementing RPC Mechanism, Stub Generation, RPC Messages, Marshaling Arguments and Results, Server Management, Parameter-Passing Semantics, Call Semantics, Communication Protocols for RPCs, Complicated RPCs, Client-Server Binding, Exception Handling, Security, Some Special Types of RPCs, RPC in Heterogeneous Environments, Lightweight RPC, Optimization for Better Performance, Case Studies: Sun RPC.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t
Module-3 Distributed Shared Memory 0 hours

Distributed Shared Memory:

Introduction, General Architecture of DSM Systems, Design and Implementation Issues of DSM, Granularity, Structure of Shared Memory Space, Consistency Models, Replacement Strategy, Thrashing, Other approaches to DSM, Heterogeneous DSM, Advantages of DSM. Synchronization: Introduction, Clock Synchronization, Event Ordering, Mutual Exclusion, Dead Lock, Election Algorithms.

Module-4 Resource Management 0 hours

Resource Management:

Introduction, Desirable Features of a Good Global Scheduling Algorithm, Task Assignment Approach, Load – Balancing Approach, Load – Sharing Approach Process Management: Introduction, Process Migration, Threads.

Module-5 Distributed File Systems 0 hours

Distributed File Systems:

Introduction, Desirable Features of a Good Distributed File System, File models, File–Accessing Models, File – Sharing Semantics, File – Caching Schemes, File Replication, Fault Tolerance, Atomic Transactions and Design Principles.

 

Course outcomes:

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

  • The concepts underlying distributed systems
  • Demonstrate an ability to apply theory and techniques to unseen problems.
  • Demonstrate the Mutual exclusion, Deadlock detection and agreement protocols of Distributed operating system
  • Explore the various resource management techniques for distributed systems.

 

Question paper pattern:

The SEE question paper will be set for 100 marks and the marks scored will be proportionately reduced to 60.

  • The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
  • Each full question is for 20 marks.
  • There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
  • Each full question will have sub question covering all the topics under a module.
  • The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

 

Textbook/ Textbooks

1 Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design Pradeep. K. Sinha PHI 2007

 

Reference Books

1 Distributed Operating Systems Andrew S. Tanenbaum Pearson Education 2013

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