Design and control of distributed computing systems (operating systems and database systems). Topics include principles of naming and location, atomicity, resource sharing, concurrency control and other synchronization, deadlock detection and avoidance, security, distributed data access and control, integration of operating systems and computer networks, distributed systems design, consistency control, and fault tolerance.

Usually Offered:	Spring Not offered in 2002-03
Credit:	3 hours (class)
Prerequisite:	CS 503. CS 542 is recommended
University Catalog:	CS 603
Schedule:	Fall 2003 Instructor: Dongyan Xu
Syllabi:	Canonical