IS 651: Distributed Systems Spring 2020

Announcement

Class Information

• Instructor: Sisi Duan
• Email: sduan@umbc.edu (best way to reach me)
• Office: ITE 426
• Office Hours: Web/Fri 2:30-4:00pm (email only in the first two weeks)
• Class Info: Fri 4:30-7:00pm, ITE 227

Textbooks (All of them are optional)

• Kip Canfield, Jianwu Wang. Distributed Systems: Architecture and Implementation.
• Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen. Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms. Prentice Hall.
• Bernadette Charron-Bost, Fernando Pedone, Andre Schiper. Replication: Theory and Practice. LNCS.
• Christian Cachine, Rachid Guerraoui, Luis Rodrigues. Introduction to Reliable and Secure Distributed Programming. Springer.

Grading

• Class Participation: 5%
• Assignments: 15% (5 in total)
• Project: 30%
• Exams: 50% (2 in total)

Late submission policy

• Every student has one chance for a one-day late submission (including both homework and project). After that, late submissions won't be graded. If a group project report is submitted late, the member in the team that has used his/her chance before will not get any credit, and other members will not be allowed for any late submissions.

Course Syllabus and Materials (Tentative)

• Acknowledgment to Roxana Geambasu, Randy Bryant, and Jinyang Li, whose slides are used in this class.

Week	Class Date	Topic	Deadlines	Slides	Reading
1	Jan 31	Introduction Overview of Distributed Systems Topics		0-info 1-ds
2	Feb 7	Web Technologies	Ex1-GoogleForm Ex1-Questions Ex1-Answers	2-web	2-web-reading
3	Feb 14	Distributed Communication		2-cdn 3-comm demo	3-comm-reading sample-code
4	Feb 21	Time and Syncrhonization	Ex2-GoogleForm Ex2-Questions Ex2-Answers	4-time project-info	4-time-reading
5	Feb 28	Mutual Exclusion Distributed File Systems	HW1 Ex3-GoogleForm Ex3-Questions Ex3-Answers	5-mutex 5-filesys	5-filesys-reading mutex-example
6	Mar 6	Consistency	HW2 Project Description Report	6-consistency	6-consistency-reading serialization-example
7	Mar 13	Consistency (Class canceled) Midterm Review
8	Mar 20	Spring Break	HW3 VC-template
9	Mar 27	Midterm		Instructions (Please READ before you start) Updated Consistency Lectures HW2-sol HW3-sol
10	Apr 3	Primary-Backup Replication	Midterm (Please submit via blackboard) Ex4-GoogleForm Ex4-Questions Ex4-Answers Midterm-Common Errors/Questions	Instructions (Please READ before you start) 7-primary-backup	7-primary-backup-reading
11	Apr 10	Consensus	Project Progress Report Ex5-GoogleForm Ex5-Questions Ex5-Answers	Instructions (Please READ before you start) 8-consensus	8-consensus-reading
12	Apr 17	Paxos	HW4 Ex6-GoogleForm Ex6-Questions Ex6-Answers	Instructions (Please READ before you start) 9-paxos	9-paxos-reading
13	Apr 24	Byzantine Fault Tolerance	ByzGame	Instructions (Please READ before you start) 10-bft project-final	10-bft-reading
14	May 1	Blockchain	Ex7-GoogleForm Ex7-Questions Ex7-Answers	Instructions (Please READ before you start) 11-blockchain	11-blockchain-reading
15	May 8	Project Presentation	HW5 Presentation Schedule	HW5-answers
16	May 15	Final Exam	Project Final Report (Due May 17)	final-Info final-review