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Oct 17, 2026
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2026-2027 University Catalog
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CS 50500 - Distributed Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. Foundations for building reliable distributed systems, including failure and system models, and basic communication and agreement problems; crash failures, recovery, partition, Byzantine failures; asynchronous systems, failure detectors, communication channels, wireless and sensor networks; software clocks, causality, and cuts. Examples of problems include reliable broadcast consensus, leader election, group communication, and replication. Permission of department required.
Learning Outcomes
1. Have a solid understanding of the fundamental problems and techniques in distributed systems. 2. Understand the core design and trade-offs adopted by a state-of-the-art distributed system. 3. Develop skills to build and maintain distributed systems through course project.
Credit Hours: 3.00
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