Distributed Networking(DN) Syllabus

Course Description: The course covers overview of distributed networking model, client server model, communication models, internetworking, interprocess communication, fault tolerance, reliability, replication, security issues and new developments in distributed networking.

Course Objectives: The course objective to make the students familiar with Distributed Network Systems, its models, communication paradigms, related protocols and architectures, its reliability and replication systems, and security issues. It also briefly introduces the current developments in distributed networking.

1. Protocols-functions

teaching hours: 8 hrs

Protocols-functions, design, implementation and testing, Architectures, Standards and Protocols-

TCP OSI/IP, connectionless and connection-oriented protocols, protocol stacks, Internetworking-

bridges and routers, Internet design and evolution.

2. Network Design

teaching hours: 8 hrs

Network Design, Performance, Operation and Management-architecture, interoperability and

open systems issues, Introduction to Distributed Systems-client/server model, workstations.

3. Inter-process Communication

teaching hours: 8 hrs

API for Internet protocols, External data representation and

Marshalling, Client server architecture, Peer-to-peer architecture, Client-Server communication

and Group communication

4. Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation

teaching hours: 8 hrs

Communication between distributed objects,

Remote Procedure Call, Remote Object Invocation, Message- and Stream-oriented

communication, Distributed Web-Based Systems, Common Carrier Services

5. Distributed OS

teaching hours: 8 hrs

network operating systems, Distributed File systems, Distributed

synchronization, Distributed object-based systems, Fault Tolerant Computing Systems.

6. Advance Application

teaching hours: 5 hrs

 Grid Computing and Application, virtualization and cloud computing

Laboratory exercise should consist of tasks related configuration of distributed system, client server applications, message passing, remote method invocation, remote procedure calls, socket and system calls, and reliability and replication techniques.