CS 843
Distributed Computing Systems
Spring 2002

Class Information

• Class Time: T,Th 7:05-8:20 pm
• Class Room: 224 McKinley Hall

Contact Information

Instructor: Chin-Chih Chang
Office: 209 Jabara Hall
Office Hours: T,Th 9:30 - 11:00 AM (or by e-mail)
E-mail: chang@cs.twsu.edu

Course Description

Syllabus

Prerequisites: CS 540 - Operating Systems with good knowledge of computer networks

Textbook

Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 3/e George Coulouris , Jean Dollimore , Tim Kindberg Addison Wesley, 2001, 0-201-61918-0, 772 Pages

Lecture Notes

• Characterization of Distributed Systems (01/22/02, 01/24/02)
• System Models (01/29/02, /02/05/02)
• Networking and Internetworking (02/07/02, 02/12/02, 02/14/02, 02/19/02)
• Interprocess Communication (02/21/02, 02/26/02, 02/28/02, 03/05/02)
• Introduction to Threads (02/28/02)
• Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation (03/05/02, 03/07/02, 03/12/02, 03/26/02)
• CORBA, Java IDL (03/26/02, 03/28/02, 04/02/02, 04/04/02, 04/09/02) Overview of CORBA
• Operating System Support (04/11/02, 04/16/02, 04/18/02, 04/23/02)
• Security (04/25/02, 04/30/02, 05/02/02, 05/07/02)

Tutorials

• Java Tutorial, Java Programming, Java 2 SE 1.4 API
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
  Jim Kurose's UNIX Network Programming
• Java Network Programming Tutorial
  Java Network Programming
• Java RMI Tutorial
• CORBA Tutorial, Java IDL, CORBA for Beginners
• A Detailed Comparison of CORBA, DCOM and Java/RMI

Programs

• Programming Assignment #1 (Due 03/26/02) (Submission ID 1 using handin system)
• Programming Assignment #2 (Due 04/25/02) (Submission ID 2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) CORBA Code in (Java) (C++)
• Programming Project (Due 05/17/02) (Submission ID 3) (Conference Call) (File Service) (Simple File Server) (Simple Web Server)

• Sample Programs in C
• Sample Programs in Java
• RPC Programs
• JAVA RMI Programs
• CORBA Examples (in Java) (in C++)
  (Use kill -9 -1 to kill all your processes before you log out.)
• Run your CORBA applications.
• Display your HTML files.
• Run your applets.

Exams

• Mid-Term Exam (Thursday, 03/14/02 in the classroom 224 Mckinley Hall) References (Solution) (Statistics)
• Final Exam (Thursday, 05/09/02) (Information) (Terminologies)

Term Paper

• Guideline (10 points format updated)
• Due Date (Friday, 05/17/02) (Submission ID paper) Both softcopy and hardcopy
• Accepted Proposals
• Template (10 points)
• References
• Sample 1, 2, 3, 4

Homework

• Homework 1 (Due 02/21/2002) (Solution)
• Homework 2 (Due 04/02/2002) (Solution)
  (Homework 2.5 can be submitted with the submission ID hwk2.)
• Homework 3 (Due 04/25/2002) (Solution)
  
• Paper Review (optional) (Submission ID draft and review) (Due 05/13/2002)

Worksheets

Electronic Handin

Useful Links

Download

• putty (PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms.)
• Source Code of Linux Socket Programming
• Source Code of Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol 3
• Source Code of Stevens' UNIX Network Programming