27/11/94 Instructor's Guide for Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design Edn. 2 � � Addison-Wesley Publishers 1994 PROJECTS PREFACE (21)
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The projects described in this section were designed as laboratory work for students studying from various parts of the book. The projects have all been tested in our own teaching at Queen Mary and Westfield College, but laboratory work inevitably has local dependencies. We have done a quick pass through the projects to remove specific details that are obviously local, but we cannot guarantee that all local dependencies have been eliminated. Teachers should scan the projects very carefully for problems that may arise when students attempt them in their local environment. It might be wise to regard these descriptions as drafts for project sheets, to be adjusted before use to suit the local environment and students ' knowledge. The projects are outline below: Projects 1 and 2 are designed to exemplify and explore some of the issues raised in Chapter 6. Ideally,they should be undertaken before the study of Chapter 6. They require an understanding of the basics of operating systems and interprocess communication. We allow two afternoons of laboratory working time for each of these projects. Project 3 consolidates the basic knowledge about RPC implementation in Chapter 4 and 5 and give students experience in constructing programs that utilize UNIX sockets (with UDP). We allow 3--4 afternoons for it. Project 4 Should be undertaken by students who have studied the description of the use of process groups for replication in Chapter 11. It depends upon the use of ISIS for group communication. It is a useful introduction to
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