Summary: March 29, 2008 Operating Systems: The course 1
Distributed Operating Systems Issues
Chapters 16 and 18
March 29, 2008 Operating Systems: The course 2
Objectives
To provide a high-level overview of distributed systems
To discuss the general structure of distributed operating
systems
To describe various methods for achieving mutual exclusion in
a distributed system
To present schemes for handling deadlock prevention,
deadlock avoidance, and deadlock detection in a distributed
system
To present distributed algorithms used in case of failure
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Outline
Motivation (16.1)
Types of Distributed Operating Systems 16.2)
Event Ordering (18.1)
Mutual Exclusion (18.2)

Source: Adam, Salah - Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences