This course is about learning the basic concepts about the distributed systems. They feature asynchrony between processes only relying on non-shared memory and message passing, in presence or not of failure.
Typical problems are solved: election, termination, consensus, mutual exclusion, group communications, introduction to fault tolerance
1. Introduction, Election
2. Time management in distributed systems
3. Fault tolerance: concepts, checkpointing
4. Group communications
5. Mutual Exclusion
6. Consensus
7. Total algorithms (Termination detection, deadlock detection), and commit protocols
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