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Kunsan National University
School of Electronic and Information Engineering
San 68 Miryong-dong, Kunsan, Chonbuk, South Korea

Course Syllabus

1.  Course Number:               101249

     Hours & No. of Weeks:    3 hours per week, for a total of 15 weeks

  2.  Professor:                        Lee, Jae Wan            Email: jwlee@kunsan.ac.kr

     Research Assistant:        Gerardo, Bobby        Email: bgerardo@kunsan.ac.kr

 3. Course Title:                      Distributed System

4. Course Description:

This course will cover fundamental principle of distributed system as an essential part of computing application. It will also discuss and explain about systematic presentation of the basic issues in building distributed systems, particularly different architecture and resource issues such as materials about different applications of distributed systems and case studies to illustrate the important issues.

 5. Course Objectives:

            5.1 Understand the fundamental principle of distributed system;

5.2 Know the different architecture and resource issues;

5.3 Learn the various distributed systems, its applications and implementations;

5.4 Learn and make case studies to illustrate important issues in distributed system.

 6. Text Book:

Title

Author

Publisher

Year

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Joel M. Crichlow

Prentice Hall

2001

 7. References:

Distributed Operating Systems

Doreen L. Galli

Prentice Hall

2000

Network and Distributed Systems Management

M. Sloman

Addison-Wesley

1994

Distributed System Concepts and Design

Coulouris, Dollimore

Addison-Wesley

2001

Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design

P.K. Sinha

IEEE Press

1997

 8. Course Outline

Week

Period

Topics

Reference

Instructional Method

Teaching Aid

1

08/25~08/30

Introduction-The Computer network-Services-Issues-User-User Interface

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

2

09/01~09/06

Introduction-Issues and User Interface

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

3

09/08~09/13

Major Application Areas for Distributed System-Distributed File Systems-Distributed Database Systems

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

4

09/15~09/20

Major Application Areas for Distributed System- Distributed Real-time Systems-Distributed multimedia systems-distributed operating systems

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

5

09/22~09/27

Architecture for Distributed Systems-Software Architecture-Network Architecture

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

6

09/29~10/04

Managing Distributed resources-Naming and Addressing-Sharing

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

7

10/06~10/11

Managing Distributed resources- Availability and Reliability-Replication-Privacy and Security

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

8

10/13~10/18

Midterm Examination

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Written

OHP

9

10/20~10/25

Accessing distributed resources-Communication-Time-Failure

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

10

10/27~11/01

Special issues in resource use-Distributed shared memory

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

11

11/03~11/08

Special issues in resource use- Transaction

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

12

11/10~11/15

Case Studies- Distributed file systems

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

13

11/17~11/22

Distributed database system

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

14

11/24~11/29

Distributed operating system

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Discussion

OHP

15

12/01~1206

Final Examination

The Essence of Distributed Systems

Lecture/Written

OHP

 9. Grading System

            Midterm Examination           30%

            Final Examination                 40%

            Project/Assignment              20%

            Attendance/Participation     10%

Important Note: This course will be handled by Prof. Jaewan Lee and Mr. Bobby Gerardo. The mode of instructions will be a combination of Korean and English languages. This syllabus could be downloaded at http://dslab.kunsan.ac.kr/distributed.htm. or https://bobby-gerardo.tripod.com/distributed.htm.

. Other important information, course and submission requirements, and announcements could be found on the same address.