1. Course Syllabus  Instructor: Hsung-Pin Chang hpchang@cs.nchu.edu.tw  TA: 林郁傑 s9456032@cs.nchu.edu.tw  Web Site: http://www.osnet.nchu.edu.tw

2. Text Book  “ Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms ” by Andrew Tanenbaum and M. van Steen. Prentice Hall

3. Syllabus ( Topics)  Introduction  Communication  Process  Naming  Synchronization  Consistency and Replication  Fault Tolerance  Security: Access Control  Distributed Object-Based Systems COBRA Distributed DOM  Distributed File Systems SUN Network File System The Coda File System

4. Grading  Two Exams  Two-three projects RPC (Remote Procedure Call) Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) Server implementation  Multiple process  Multi-threaded  Single process with nonblocking system call (select)