Distributed Systems
- Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Distributed Systems

INTRODUCTION

1. Distributed systems - Answer (click here)
2. Trends in Distributed Systems - Answer (click here)
3. Resource Sharing - Answer (click here)
4. The Challenges in Distributed System - Answer (click here)

COMMUNICATION IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

1. Introduction to System Models - Answer (click here)
2. System architectures - Answer (click here)
3. Performance of communication channels - Answer (click here)
4. Security model - Answer (click here)
5. The characteristics of interprocess communication - Answer (click here)
6. Sockets - Answer (click here)
7. UDP datagram communication - Answer (click here)
8. TCP stream communication - Answer (click here)
9. CORBA CDR for constructed types - Answer (click here)
10. Group communication - Answer (click here)
11. IP multicast – An implementation of multicast communication - Answer (click here)
12. Remote method invocation(RMI) - Answer (click here)
13. Remote Procedure Call - Answer (click here)
14. Case Study: Java RMI - Answer (click here)
15. Case Study of a Distributed Operating System - Answer (click here)

PEER TO PEER SERVICES AND FILE SYSTEM

1. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) - Answer (click here)
2. Overlay case studies: Pastry, Tapestry - Answer (click here)
3. Distributed File Systems - Answer (click here)
4. File Service Architecture - Answer (click here)
5. Case Study: The Andrew File System (AFS) - Answer (click here)
6. Naming Services - Answer (click here)
7. Global Name Service (GNS) - Answer (click here)
8. X500 Directory Service - Answer (click here)

SYNCHRONIZATION AND REPLICATION

1. Clocks, Events and Process States - Answer (click here)
2. Synchronizing physical clocks - Answer (click here)
3. Logical time and logical clocks - Answer (click here)
4. Global states - Answer (click here)
5. Distributed Mutual Exclusion - Answer (click here)
6. Elections in Distributed Systems - Answer (click here)
7. Multicast Communication - Answer (click here)
8. Consensus and related problems - Answer (click here)

PROCESS and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1. Consensus and related problems - Answer (click here)
2. Process Management - Answer (click here)
3. Distributed Shared Memory - Answer (click here)
4. Resource Management - Answer (click here)
5. Load balancing (computing) - Answer (click here)
6. Scheduling algorithms - Answer (click here)
7. Load balancer features - Answer (click here)
8. Sharing annotations - Answer (click here)
9. Other Consistency Models - Answer (click here)
10. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) - Answer (click here)
11. CORBA RMI - Answer (click here)
12. CORBA IDL - Answer (click here)
13. CORBA Services - Answer (click here)