General information about Distributed Systems (DS 2023-24)

• Summary of the teaching guide for DS 2022-2023
• Official Google Calendar for Distributed Systems 2023-2024

Lecture Presentations and Notes

• Introduction to Distributed Systems
• Introduction to UDP
• Introduction to TCP (i)
• Sliding Window, Flow Control
• Introd. TCP performance
• TCP exercises for Questionnaire (19-Oct-2021)
• Physical Clock synchronization
• Modeling Distributed Systems
• Marshalization

Study Guides and other Homework

• Study Guide to "Introduction to Distributed Systems"
• Study Guide to Transports
• Past, solved agora test on Transports
• TCP connection lifecycle example (tcpdump, homework #2 2024)
  Guidance to hw#2 (2024)
  
• Simple Sliding Window illustration from tcpdump trace (HW#3 2024)
  
• TCP connection lifecycle example (tcpdump)
• Exercise on TCP RTO Timer
• Homework #1: UDP traces and socket programming intro(2024)
• Homework #1: TCP Analysis and 1st LabBook submission(2022-23)
• Study Guide on Physical, Logical and Vector Clocks (Upd. 16-Nov-22)
• Study Guide on Dist. System Modeling
• DSPro(2021): Independent study and practice
• DSProi(2022): Independent study and practice(Publ. 21/Nov/2023)
• DSPro(2023): Independent study and practice(Publ. in agora)
  Complementary tech info for DSPro 2023 (Publ. in agora)
• DSPro(2024): Independent study and practical (Publ. in agora on 6/Nov/2024)
• Reference solution to HW#1 (2024)
• Reference solution to HW#2 (2024)
• Reference solution to HW#3 (2024)

Laboratory Practicals

Gudelines to composing the LabBook on academic year 2024-25
• DS-LabBook Guidelines
Moving from CN to DS: The UDP transport protocol
• Transition practice on the UDP transport protocol (nc/tcpdump/ntp)
• Datagram sockets: the interface to UDP
Client/Server implementation with Datagram Sockets
• Practical on CS with datagram sockets in C
• Source code to client program
• Source code to server program
TCP connection life cycle analysis with tcpdump (Week #40, 2024)
• C/S connection with nc
Client/Server with Stream Sockets (Weeks #41 and #42)
• Script to TCP Sockets/States
• Stream sock programming in C
• Source code to client program
• Source code to server program
• Stream Socket API summary
Multithreaded Server
• Source code to client program
• Source code to server program
• Source code to C/S protocol implementation
• Include file for project
Time synchronization by ICMP Timestamps/Raw Sockets
• Practice script about Physical Clock Synchronization
• Source code to time sync client

Java CS/MT/SO
• Practice script about MT/SO C/S in Java
• Java source code tree
CS with Java RMI
• Overall, the following script applies to academic year 2021, however software contruction is with shell scripts, not with ANT
  Practice script about C/S with Java RMI with shell scripts
• Software contruction with ANT
  Java RMI source code tree
• RMI overall process
• Tutorial on Java ANT
• apache-ant-1.10.12 plus help scripts (Do $unzip ant; cd ant; install.sh)