Term Project

Some possible term project topics are given below. As we prceed with distributed operating systems issues in our lectures, more topics will be added.

  1. Case studies in distributed operating systems.
  2. The role of the middleware in distributed operating systems: The future middleware systems.
  3. Scale in distributed systems: Caching, Replication, and Distribution techniques.
  4. The dangers of replication: Consistency and replication
  5. Java Remote Method Invocation Compared with Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
  6. CORBA
  7. Thrift
  8. Microsoft DCOM
  9. Precision Time Protocol
  10. Einstein synchronisation
  11. Distributed Transactions