Lecture Notes and Readings

• Introduction (January 4)
• Architecture Models (January 4)
• Socket Programing (January 11)
• Beej's Guide to Networking Programming
• The Java Tutorials: All about Sockets
• Sample Socket Code
• RPC (January 11)
• Tutorials Point: XML-RPC
• Sample XML-RPC code
• DNS (January 18)
• Replication (January 18)
• Logical Clocks - Part 1(January 18)
• Relevant paper:   Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system, Leslie Lamport, Communications of the ACM, 21(7):558-565, July 1978.   

• Logical Clocks - Part 2 (January 26)
• Relevant Paper: Virtual Time and Global States in Distributed Systems, F. Mattern, Proc. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, pp. 214-216, 1989.
• Amazon Case Study (Feb 1)
• Relevant Paper:  Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store, Giuseppe DeCandia et al, SOSP 2007.
• Logical Clocks Addendum (Feb 8)
• NFS and Google File System Case Study (Feb 8)
• Google File System, Sanjay Ghemaway, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung, SOSP'03.
• Chord (Feb 15)
• Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications, Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek,
     and Hari     Balakrishnan, ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Deigo, CA, August 2001 (Feb 15)
• Content-Distribution Networks (March 1)
• Byzantine-Generals Problem (March 8)
• Election Algorithms (March 8)
• MapReduce (March 8)