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Contents

1. Distributed Systems

   Definition, terminology, models, components, problems.

2. Communication

   Protocol layers, message passing, remote procedure calls.

3. Distributed Object Computing

   Fundamental concepts, CORBA, Java RMI, Jini.

4. Concurrency

   Threads, mutual exclusion, deadlocks, optimistic concurrency control, design patterns.

5. Time and Coordination

   Physical clocks, logical clocks, distributed coordination, consistent global states, distributed snapshots.

6. Replication and Consistency

   Consistency, request ordering, state machine model.

7. Transactions

   Basic model, atomic commitment, distributed transactions.

8. Reliability and Fault Tolerance

   Failure causes and models, reliable messages, checkpointing and recovery, software design issues.

9. Group communication

   Process groups, reliable broadcasts, group communication systems.

10. Reasoning

    Formal models, specification, verification.

Less or not covered: communication technologies, name and directory services, distributed operating systems, distributed file systems, distributed shared memory, real time systems, resource management and scheduling, security aspects, cryptography, authentification, system management, algorithms and theory.