Course:CICS525/Notes

REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

• Real-time systems: Introduction and Task Models
• Real-time scheduling theory: An introduction
• Task synchronization in real-time systems
• Exact tests for schedulability using rate monotonic scheduling
• Task servers
• Scheduling real-time tasks on multiprocessing platforms
• Implementing multiprocessor scheduling policies
• Building dependable systems
• Soft real-time systems

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

• Introduction to distributed systems
• Remote procedure calls
• Distributed objects
• Lamport clocks, snapshots, and fault tolerance
• Strict and sequential consistency models
• Amazon's Dynamo and Google File System
• The MapReduce programming framework
• Overlay networks
• System design considerations