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This document outlines the units covered in the course CSE-402 E Distributed Operating System. The five units cover: 1) introduction to distributed systems, 2) synchronization techniques, 3) processes and processors, 4) distributed file systems, and 5) a case study of the MACH operating system. Students will answer questions from each unit on the exam, attempting a total of five questions.

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This document outlines the units covered in the course CSE-402 E Distributed Operating System. The five units cover: 1) introduction to distributed systems, 2) synchronization techniques, 3) processes and processors, 4) distributed file systems, and 5) a case study of the MACH operating system. Students will answer questions from each unit on the exam, attempting a total of five questions.

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CSE-402 E Distributed Operating System

Unit-1: Introduction: Introduction to Distributed System, Goals of Distributed system,


Hardware and Software concepts, Design issues. Communication in distributed system:
Layered protocols, ATM networks, Client – Server model, Remote Procedure Calls and
Group Communication. Middleware and Distributed Operating Systems.

Unit-2: Synchronization in Distributed System: Clock synchronization, Mutual


Exclusion, Election algorithm, the Bully algorithm, a Ring algorithm, Atomic
Transactions, Deadlock in Distributed Systems, Distributed Deadlock Prevention,
Distributed Deadlock Detection.

Unit-3: Processes and Processors in distributed systems: Threads, System models,


Processors Allocation, Scheduling in Distributed System, Real Time Distributed Systems.

Unit-4: Distributed file systems: Distributed file system Design, Distributed file system
Implementation, Trends in Distributed file systems.
Distributed Shared Memory: What is shared memory, Consistency models, Page based
distributed shared memory, shared variables distributed shared memory.

Unit-5: Case study MACH: Introduction to MACH, process management in MACH,


communication in MACH, UNIX emulation in MACH.

Text Book:

Distributed Operating System – Andrew S. Tanenbaum, PHI.


Note: Eight questions will be set in all by the examiners taking at least one question from
each unit. Students will be required to attempt five questions in all.

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