CSE 486/586
Distributed
Systems

Spring 2014

Course Info
Schedule
PAs
Practice Problems
Syllabus

Tentative Schedule

The schedule is tentative and subject to change. The lecture slides heavily contain the material developed and copyrighted by Prof. Indranil Gupta at Illinois. The material was originally developed for courses CS425/CSE424/ECE428 at Illinois.

Date
Topic(s)
Reading(s)
Assignment(s)
Mon 1/27 Introduction
[pptx] [pdf]
PA 1 Out
Wed 1/29 The Internet in 2 Hours --- 1
[pptx] [pdf]
Parts of Sections 3.1 and 3.2
(Optional) The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
Fri 1/31 The Internet in 2 Hours --- 2
[pptx] [pdf]
Parts of Sections 3.3 and 3.4
(Optional) Brief History of the Internet
(Optional) End-to-End Arguments in System Design
Mon 2/3 Android Programming
[pptx] [pdf]
Android Guide: API Guides & Training PA 1 Due
Wed 2/5 Failure Detection
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 2.4.2 and 15.1
Fri 2/7 Time and Synchronization
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 14.1 - 14.3
Mon 2/10 Logical Time
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 14.4
(Optional) Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Wed 2/12 Global States
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 14.4
(Optional) Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems
Fri 2/14 Reliable Multicast --- 1
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 15.4 PA 2 Out
Mon 2/17 Reliable Multicast --- 2
[pptx] [pdf]
Wed 2/19 DNS
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 13.1 & 13.2
Fri 2/21 Peer-to-Peer Systems
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 10.1-10.3 & 10.5.3
Mon 2/24 Distributed Hash Tables
[pptx] [pdf]
Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications
Wed 2/26 Remote Procedure Call
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 5.1 - 5.3 & 21.4
Fri 2/28 Consensus
[pptx] [pdf]
Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process
Sections 15.5.2 & 15.5.4
Mon 3/3 Mutual Exclusion
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 15.2
Wed 3/5 Leader Election
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 15.3
Fri 3/7 Mid-Semester Overview
[pptx] [pdf]
PA 2 Due
Mon 3/10 Concurrency Control --- 1
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 16.1 - 16.4
Wed 3/12 Midterm (Cancelled due to the weather)
Fri 3/14 No Class
Mon 3/17 - Fri 3/21 Spring Break PA 3 Out
Mon 3/24 Concurrency Control --- 2
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 16.2 - 16.4
Wed 3/26 Concurrency Control --- 3
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 16.4 & 17.1 - 17.3
Fri 3/28 View Synchronous Group Communication
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 18.1 - 18.3
Mon 3/31 Midterm
Wed 4/2 Consistency --- 1
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 18.5
Fri 4/4 Consistency --- 2
[pptx] [pdf]
Mon 4/7 Consistency --- 3
[pptx] [pdf]
Wed 4/9 Gossiping
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 18.4
Fri 4/11 Case Study: Amazon Dynamo
[pptx] [pdf]
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store
(Optional) Eventually Consistent
PA 3 Due
Mon 4/14 Transactions on Replicated Data
[pptx] [pdf]
Wed 4/16 Distributed File Systems
[pptx] [pdf]
FAWN: A Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes PA 4 Out
Fri 4/18 Paxos --- 1
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 21.5.2
Paxos Made Simple
The Part-Time Parliament
(Optional) Paxos Made Moderately Complex
(Optional) Paxos Made Practical
Mon 4/21 Paxos --- 2
[pptx] [pdf]
Wed 4/23 Case Study: Google Chubby
[pptx] [pdf]
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
Fri 4/25 Security --- 1
[pptx] [pdf]
Sections 11.1 - 11.3
Mon 4/28 Security --- 2
[pptx] [pdf]
Section 11.6
Wed 4/30 Google Spanner
[pptx] [pdf]
Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
Fri 5/2 Byzantine Fault Tolerance --- 1
[pptx] [pdf]
Relevant Discussions in Section 15.5
The Byzantine Generals Problem
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Mon 5/5 Byzantine Fault Tolerance --- 2
[pptx] [pdf]
Wed 5/7 Wrap-up
[pptx] [pdf]
Fri 5/9 No Class PA 4 Due
Wed 5/14 Final Exam Time: 3:30PM - 6:30PM
Location: Norton 112