EE 382 N Vijay K. Garg Fall 2017

TTh 3:30 - 5:00
ECJ 1.314
Unique No. 16855

Instructor: Prof. Vijay K. Garg ; Office: EER 7.884; Phone: (512) 471-9424 ; e-mail: garg AT ece.utexas.edu;
Office Hours: TTh 11:00-12:00 (or by appointment);
URL: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~garg

Prerequisites: Programming experience, Graduate standing

Textbook :
Elements of Distributed Computing by Vijay K. Garg, Wiley & Sons, 2002. The textbook will be supplemented with a set of papers .
Course Contents: This will be an introductory graduate level course in distributed systems. It will expose students to theoretical as well as practical aspects of designing such systems. The course assumes that the student has some familiarity with programming. There is no final exam but there will be three tests during the course. The following topics will be covered in the course:

Week

Topics

Course Material

1

Introduction, posets, Happened-Before, lattices, Clocks (physical, logical, vector, chain)

C1-5, [L78]

2

Mutex Algorithms: Lamport, Ricart-Agrawala, Drinking Philosophers, Quorums

C6-8

3

Snapshot algorithms, Leader election, Spanning tree,

C9, C10, C18, [CL], [GG], [GHS]

4

Randomization, Chernoff's bound, Distributed Trigger Counting, Maximal Independent Set

[CCGS11], [Luby86]

5

Test 1, Global Predicates (linear, relational), Birkhoff's Theorem, Slicer, termination detection

[IG06], [MG02], C11-14, C21

6

Causal and Total Message Order, Synchronizers, Self-stabilization

C16, C17, C21, C23

7

Common Knowledge, FLP, Consensus in synchronous systems, Paxos,

C24-26,

8

Byzantine Agreement, Weighted Byzantine, Accurate Byzantine, Approximate Agreement, Practical Byzantine, Test 2,

[GB11], [GBB11]

9

Basic Linear Codes, Reed-Solomon, Fusion based Fault-Tolerance

[G10], [GB11]

10

Failure Detectors, Publish-Subscription Systems

C28, [PubSub03]

11

Map-Reduce, Google File System

[DG04], [GGL03],

12

P2P Systems, Chord, Dynamo, Cloud Computing,

[Chord03]

13

Trace Analysis, Controlling Distributed Computations

C15, [SG04], [OG07]

14

Term Project Presentations

15

Term Project Presentations, Survey, Test 3

Grading: 25 % Assignments, 15 % Test 1, 15 % Test 2, 20 % Test 3, 15% Term paper, 5% Class presentation, 5% scribe duties.

Scribe Notes from a previous offering

Course Evaluation: Standard ; Add/Drop Policy: Standard.
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