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ECLT 5820 Distributed and Mobile Systems

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Time：Wednesday 7 – 9:45pm 
Classroom: ERB 803
Course Email: eclt5820@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Instructor:

         Dr. Lyu, Rung-Tsong Michael
         Engineering Building 927
         lyu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk            
         TEL:   3943 8429

Office Hour:

         2-4pm Wednesday or by appointment

Tutor:

         Mr. CHEN, Zhuangbin
         Engineering Building 101A
         zbchen@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Coursework:

 Homework (2 assignments, 20%):
        Assignment 1: assigned on 30/9, due on 14/10 (covers Topics 1-4)
        Assignment 2: assigned on 14/10, due on 4/11 (covers Topics 5-8)
        Discussions allowed but no plagiarism.
        Policy on Late Submission: 1) Late within 2 days - 30% deduction; 2) Late after 2 days - not allowed.
 Midterm (40%):
        November 11, 2020, Wednesday (3 hours, 7-10pm)
 Group Presentation and Report (40%): 
        23:59:59pm December 9, 2020, Wednesday

Piazza:

Please join the Piazza of ECLT5820 Fall 2020 through this link. Questions regarding this course can be posted there.

Textbook:

The textbook is available online, please find it here.

Project:

Project specification
Project grouping deadline: Oct. 21, 2020, Wednesday
Proposal deadline: Nov. 4, 2020, Wednesday (electronic version)
Project final deliverables (project final report, presentation file, and a 5-10 mins presentation video): 23:59:59pm, Dec. 9, 2020, Wednesday

Group	SID1	SID2
1	1155152375	1155152374
2	1155145529	1155147256
3	1155155128	1155149933
4	1155145472	1155145720
5	1155150477	1155155096
6	1155145805	1155147512
7	1155151103	1155152543
8	1155150581	1155154823
9	1155150299

Schedule:

Date	Topics	PPT	Exercise	Homework	Reading
9/9	Topic 1: Characterization of Distributed Systems	lyuDS0 lyuDS1			Ch.1, 2
16/9	Topic 2: Communication and Remote Procedure Call	lyuDS2	exer2 exer2_ans		Ch.3, 4, 5, 6
23/9	Topic 3: Security	lyuDS3	exer3 exer3_ans		Ch.11
30/9	Topic 4: Naming, Trading and P2P Systems	lyuDS4	exer4-1 exer4-1_ans	HW1 HW1_SOL	Ch.10, 13
7/10	Topic 5: Time, Coordination and Agreement	lyuDS5	exer5 exer5_ans		Ch.14, 15
14/10	Topic 6: Concurrency Control	lyuDS6	exer6 exer6_ans	HW2 HW2_SOL	Ch.16a
21/10	Topic 7: Transactions	lyuDS7	exer7 exer7_ans		Ch.16b, 17a
28/10	Topic 8: Fault Tolerance and Replication	lyuDS8	exer8 exer8_ans		Ch.17b, 18
4/11	Topic 9: Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing and RFID	lyuDS9			Ch.19
11/11	Midterm	ECLT5820 Midterm Guidelines
18/11	Topic 10: Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Ethereum	lyuDS10			Notes
25/11	Topic 11: Cloud Computing	lyuDS11	exer11 exer11_ans		Ch.21
9/12	Presentation package and Final Report due	Project Presentation

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