eclt5820

ECLT 5820 Distributed and Mobile Systems

Course info:

Time：Monday 7:00 – 9:30pm
Classroom: Zoom Meeting* and LHC G04 (confirmed) from Sept. 20
Course Email: eclt5820@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

*Zoom info: link (Meeting ID: 920 7518 5570, Passcode: 824225)

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%):
  1. Assignment 1: assigned on Sept. 24, due on Oct. 11 (covers Topics 1-4)
  2. Assignment 2: assigned on Oct. 11, due on Oct. 25 (covers Topics 5-7)
  3. Discussions allowed but no plagiarism.
  4. Policy on Late Submission: 1) Late within 2 days - 30% deduction; 2) Late after 2 days - not allowed.
 
Midterm (40%):
  1. Time: Nov. 01, 2021 (Monday), 2.5 hours, 7-9:30pm (covers Topics 1-8)
  2. Venue: Science Centre L1
 
Group Presentation and Report (40%):
  1. Group presentation: 7-9:30pm, Nov. 29, 2021 (Monday), face-to-face mode
  2. Project final report: 23:59:59pm Dec. 6, 2021 (Monday)

Piazza:

Please join the Piazza of ECLT5820 Fall 2021 through this link. Questions regarding this course can be posted there.

Major reference book:

The major reference book is available online, please find it here.

Project:

Project specification: download
Project grouping deadline: Oct. 18, 2021, Monday
Proposal deadline: Nov. 8, 2021, Monday (electronic version)
Group presentation: 7-9:30pm, Nov. 29, 2021 (Monday), face-to-face mode
Project final deliverables (project final report, presentation file): 23:59:59pm, Dec. 6, 2021 (Monday)
VeriGuide checking: All final reports will be evaluated by VeriGuide, in which the scores will contribute to your marks of the final report. You can log in VeriGuide with your student ID and CWEM password to conduct self-checking first.
Project samples: sample1, sample2, sample3
ECLT5820 Team Project Presentation Schedule: schedule

Group	SID1	SID2	SID3
1	1155169171	1155160950	1155152768
2	1155166730	1155169172	1155162617
3	1155162639	1155162613	1155166446
4	1155166688	1155166375	1155164941
5	1155169398	1155169186	1155162635
6	1155166858	1155162452
7	1155161089	1155161072	1155164895

Schedule:

Date	Topics	PPT	Exercise	Homework	Reading
6/9	Topic 1: Characterization of Distributed Systems	lyuDS0 lyuDS1			Ch.1, 2
13/9	Topic 2: Communication and Remote Procedure Call	lyuDS2	exer2 exer2_ans		Ch.3, 4, 5, 6
20/9	Topic 3: Security	lyuDS3	exer3 exer3_ans		Ch.11
27/9	Topic 4: Naming, Trading and P2P Systems	lyuDS4	exer4-1 exer4-1_ans	HW1 HW1_sol	Ch.10, 13
4/10	Topic 5: Time, Coordination and Agreement	lyuDS5	exer5 exer5_ans		Ch.14, 15
11/10	Topic 6: Concurrency Control	lyuDS6	exer6 exer6_ans	HW2 HW2_sol	Ch.16a
18/10	Topic 7: Transactions	lyuDS7	exer7 exer7_ans		Ch.16b, 17a
25/10	Topic 8: Fault Tolerance and Replication	lyuDS8	exer8 exer8_ans		Ch.17b, 18
8/11	Topic 9: Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing and RFID	lyuDS9			Ch.19
15/11	Topic 10: Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Ethereum	lyuDS10			Notes
22/11	Topic 11: Cloud Computing	lyuDS11	exer11		Ch.21

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