CS 417 Syllabus
Fall 2021
| week | date | topic* |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 8 |
Note: This is a Wednesday but Rutgers holds Monday classes on this day Introduction Networking: network protocols, point-to-point communication |
| 2 | Sep 13 |
Data marshaling: JSON, Google protocol buffers
Remote procedure calls, distributed objects |
| 3 | Sep 20 |
Clock synchronization
Event ordering: Logical clocks, vector clocks |
| 4 | Sep 27 |
Group communication: message ordering and message delivery, multicasting
Replication, group management, and virtual synchrony |
| 5 | Oct 4 |
Distributed mutual exclusion
Election algorithms Distributed consensus: Raft Google's Chubby lock manager (Apache Zookeeper) |
| 6 | Oct 11 |
Network attached storage: design, NFS, AFS (scale), DFS & SMB (cache control), CODA (redundancy)
Parallel file systems: Google FS (GFS), Hadoop Distributed FS (HDFS) |
| 7 | Oct 18 | Distributed lookup services and distributed hash tables, Amazon Dynamo, DNS |
| 8 | Oct 25 |
Distributed transactions: commit protocols, ACID/BASE models Distributed deadlock Concurrency control |
| 9 | Nov 1 | Structured data: Bigtable (Apache HBase), Cassandra, Spanner |
| 10 | Nov 8 |
MapReduce
Parallel computation frameworks: Hive, Apache Spark, Bulk Synchronous Parallel framework (Apache Hama), Pregel (Apache Giraph) |
| 11 | Nov 15 |
Content delivery networks: Akamai, peer-to-peer content delivery, Kafka event streaming, Distributed caching: memcached, Redis |
| 12 | Nov 22 |
Cryptography: introduction, communication and authentication, key exchange, secure communication, hybrid cryptosystems, digital signatures
Distributed authentication: protocols, digital certificates, Kerberos, SSL Identity management (OpenID), distributed authorization (OAuth) |
| 13 | Nov 29 | NO CLASS: Wednesday classes |
| 14 | Dec 6 |
Google cluster architecture, Clustering: high-performance computing (HPC), load balancing, and availability |
| 15 | Dec 13 | Distributed systems design |
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