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2015-2016 University Catalog 
    
2015-2016 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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. Typically offered Spring.