The course covers fundamental models for distributed systems, inter process communication and how to handle synchronization, consistency, replication, fault tolerance and security in a distributed system. The course consist of a series of lectures and seminars that include practical assignments. The assignments will be programming tasks that exemplify problem statements examined in the course.
explain important characteristics of distributed systems describe architectural and fundamental models of distributed systems explain and compare strategies for interprocess communication explain and compare middleware models explain and compare name services explain the concept of logical time use logical time to implement distributed algorithms.