CSCI 531 - Advanced Operating Systems

(3 hours) This graduate course builds off the previous CSCI431 with a strong focus on Distributed Operating Systems and File Systems. Topics include: Distributed systems, Issues in communication, Remote Procedure Call/Remote Method Invocation, Code migration and distributed scheduling, Clock Synchronization, Distributed mutual exclusion and distributed deadlocks, Distributed transaction, Consistency models, Fault tolerance, Distributed commit and failure recovery, Distributed file systems (NFS, AFS & coda), Naming, Security in distributed systems.