Topics for Distributed Computing
Comprehensive Exam
Posted: September 2009
- Topics from Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design, Coulouris et al., 2005
- Characterization of Distributed Systems
- Distributed System Models
- Networking Basics
- Interprocess Communication
- Distributed Objects and Remote Invocations
- Security of Distributed Systems
- Name Services
- Web Services / REST
- CORBA
- Time and global states
- Coordination and agreement
- Transaction and Concurrency Control
- Distributed Transactions
- Replication