Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2013)

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Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2013)

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Lectures:

03-09-2013 Week01: Introduction
09-09-2013 Week02: Cloud Computing
16-09-2013 Week03: MapReduce
23-09-2013 Week04: Clock Synchronization
30-09-2013 Week05: Consistency and Replication
07-10-2013 Week06: Fault Tolerance
22-10-2013 Week 07: Distributed File System
29-10-2013 Midterm Exam
05-11-2013 Week 09: Distributed Web-based Systems
12-11-2013 Week 10: Write Publish and Present a Research Paper
19-11-2013 Week 11: NoSQL Systems
26-11-2013 Week 12: P2P Systems
02-12-2013 Week 13: Distributed Hash Table
07-12-2013 Makeup: Resource Management of Cloud Hosted Applications
13-12-2013 Week 14: Distributed Coordination-based System
20-12-2013 Week 15: Big Data

Assignments:

S.No	Assignment	Due Date
01	UDP and TCP Protocols Performance Analysis (Report Template)	01-10-2013 (09:00AM)
02	Bitcoin: Open source P2P money (Report Format)	11-11-2013 (09:00AM)
03	Body Area Networks (DL Students Only)	01-12-2013 (10:00 PM)
04	The Internet of Things in Healthcare Domain	16-12-2013 (09:00 AM)

Presentations:

Paper	Student	Presentation Date
When the Network Crumbles: An Empirical Study of Cloud Network Failures and their Impact on Services.	Umair	26-11-2013
Virtual Network Diagnosis as a Service	Nasir	28-11-2013
Finding a needle in a haystack: Facebook's photo storage	Rizwan	03-12-2013
SPORC: Group Collaboration using Untrusted Cloud Resources	Haris	05-12-013
Scale-up vs Scale-out for Hadoop: Time to rethink?	Shiraz	10-12-2013
Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage	Asad	12-12-2013
Finding a Needle in Haystack: Facebook's Photo Storage	Razia	17-12-2013
Distributed File Indexing Service (Project)	Ousaid	19-12-2013
CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing	Aisha (DL, Skype)	11-12-2013 (2pm)
Tolerating Business Failures in Hosted Applications	Adeel (DL, Skype)	18-12-2013 (2pm)

Papers List for Presentations:

SPORC: Group Collaboration using Untrusted Cloud Resources (OSDI 2010)
Finding a Needle in Haystack: Facebook's Photo Storage (OSDI, 2010)
Making Geo-Replicated Systems Fast as Possible, Consistent when Necessary (OSDI 2012)
SILT: A Memory-Efficient, High-Performance Key-Value Store (SOSP 2011)
CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing (SOSP 2011)
Hails: Protecting Data Privacy in Untrusted Web Applications (OSDI 2012)
Resilient Distributed Datasets: A fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing (NSDI 2012)
DryadLINQ: A System for General-Purpose Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language (OSDI 2008)
Scalable Progressive Analytics on Big Data in the Cloud (VLDB 2014)
When the Network Crumbles: An Empirical Study of Cloud Network Failures and their Impact on Services (SoCC 13)
Scale-up vs Scale-out for Hadoop: Time to rethink? (SoCC 13)
An analysis of Facebook photo caching (SOSP 2013)
Diglossia: Detecting Code Injection Attacks with Precision and Efficiency (ACM CCS2013)
Tolerating Business Failures in Hosted Applications (SoCC 2013)
Consistency-based service level agreements for cloud storage (SOSP 2013)
Speedy transactions in multicore in-memory databases (SOSP 2013)
Virtual Network Diagnosis as a Service (SoCC 2013)
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database (OSDI 2012)

Credit:

The course contains content from the following Distributed Systems courses taught at:

CMU [15-440] by David Anderson
Columbia [W4995 -2] by Roxana Geambasu
UCSD [223B] by Alex C. Snoeren

Instructor: Waheed Iqbal; Faculty Office Room 10; Email: waheed751 at gmail.com.

Lectures: Tuesday 7:30-9:00 Room F-01, Thursday 6:00-7:30 Room F-01.

Textbooks: No mandatory text is required for this course however "Distributed Systems: Principles & Paradigms by Tanenbaum and Steen" may help to grasp the basic concepts

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