Course:CICS525/Syllabus

Real-time and Distributed Systems: Analysis, design, and programming.

Main topics

Distributed systems

Programming issues

• Threads
• Remote procedure calls
• Remote objects

Consistency models

• Sequential consistency
• Relaxed consistency
• Eventual consistency

Programming models

• MapReduce
• Dryad

Fault tolerance

Peer-to-peer systems

• Chord
• Case study: Amazon's Dynamo as an example of using p2p methods

Real-time systems

• Worst-case execution time analysis
• Scheduling policies
• Synchronization protocols
• Real-Time operating systems and kernel design issues
• Programming languages
• Distributed real-time systems

References