DS: Schedule
| Week | Commencing | Location | Key Topics | Lectures | Compulsory Readings | Additional Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25/09/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Introduction + Architectures | Slides | Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 1 & 2 | |
| 2 | 02/10/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Architecture (contd.) + Communication | Slides |
Paper: RPC Paper | Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 2 & 4; |
| 3 | 09/10/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Fault Tolerance | Slides, rpcgen code (in class demo), gRPC(Python) | Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 8.1, 8.3 | Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 4 & 8 |
| 4 | 16/10/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Discussion on Coursework | Slides | ||
| 5 | 23/10/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Coordination - Time & Clocks - Physical, Logical, Vector, Distributed snapshots | Slides | Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 5.1, 5.2 Paper: Distributed Snapshots | Paper: Logical Clocks, Vector Clocks |
| 6 | 30/10/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Distributed Snapshots + Leader Election, Consensus Basics + Paxos | Slides | Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 5.4.1, 5.4.2 Paper: Paxos,
| Paper: Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty |
| 7 | 06/11/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Raft + Mutual Exclusion, Transactions; | Slides | Paper: Raft Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 5.3.1 to 5.3.5 Book: Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Chapter 16.4.1 Book: Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Chapter 16.2, 17.3 | Book: Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Chapter 16 |
| 8 | 13/11/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Consistency & Replication - Why Replication, Data-centric Consistency Model-Client-centric Consistency Models | Slides |
Book: Distributed Systems (MVS & AST), Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 Paper: Baseball Paper | Book: Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Chapter 16 & 17 |
| 9 | 20/11/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Distributed Storage - NFS & AFS | Slides | Paper: NFS, AFS | (Only for those who do not have file systems background) Basic FileSystems Reading -- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces -- Chapter 39, Chapter 40 Book: Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Chapter 12 Book: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces -- Chapter 49, Chapter 50 Paper: High Availability NFS
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| 10 | 27/11/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | Distributed Storage - GFS | Slides |
Paper: GFS
| Paper/Article: GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward |
| 11 | 04/12/2026 | Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower | TBD | Slides | TBD |