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Distributed Systems and Web Services(CE 353)

Fall 2013

Prof. Dr: Saleh El Shehaby

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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

COMPUTER

ENGINEERING

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Course Objective• Familiarize with Architectures, Processes, Communication

and fundamentals. • Define Names, identifiers, and addresses. • Define clock synchronization, Consistency and replication.• Identify cases advocating the appropriate use of

communications systems or computing systems technologies

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Course Contents• An Introduction to DS

– FAQ about DS– Architectures Styles– Processes

• Threads and virtualization– Communication– Naming.– Synchronization and Clock synchronization– Consistency and replication

• Data-centric consistency models.• Client-centric consistency models.

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Instructor: Prof. Dr: Saleh El-Shehaby

– Lectures: Monday 12:30 2:30 Thursday 2:30 4:30

– Office Hours: Thursday 12:30 2:30

Teaching Assistance: Eng. Noura Samir

– Tutorial: Sunday 2:30 4:30– Office: E621

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Recommended Textbook: • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, "Distributed systems principles

and paradigms”, 2nd Ed.

Supplementary Reference: • George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg,

“Distributed Systems Concepts and Design”, 3rd ED

Prof.Dr Ahmed El Nahass Spring2011 CE359

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Introduction

• History of computer• Multitasking• Distributed Systems VS. Linking• Why do we need DS• IPC and RPC