courses: add CSPC43 (#31)

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courses/CSPC43.md

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 code: CSPC43
 title: Distributed Computing
 similar: [ITPE44]
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 specifics:
   - branch: CS
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 # Objectives
 
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-- Objective 2
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+- To understand fundamental concepts of distributed computing.
+- To acquire knowledge to design and develop protocols for distributed systems and networks.
 
 # Content
 
 ## Unit 1
 
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+- Fundamental issues in Distributed Systems
+- Models of Distributed Computations
+- Handling time through clocks
+- Physical Time and Hardware Clock Synchronization
+- Logical Time and Software Clocks
+- Message Ordering Protocols
+- Interprocess Communication
+- Shared Memory Vs Message Passing Models
+- Distributed and Localized Algorithms
+- Evaluation of Correctness and Performance
 
 ## Unit 2
 
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+- Protocols for Routing and Designing Virtual Constructs
+- MST, MIS, and CDS
+- Distributed Mutual Exclusion
+- Leader Election
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+## Unit 3
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+- Distributed Deadlock Detection
+- Termination Detection
+- Global State Computation and Snapshot Recording
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+## Unit 4
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+- Global Predicate Detection
+- Fault-Tolerance Issues
+- Basic Techniques for handling Crash Failure in Distributed Systems
+- Checkpointing and Rollback Recovery
+- Z-path and Z-cycles
+- Other Types of Failures in Distributed Computing Systems
+- Consensus and Agreement Protocols
+- FLP impossibility
+- Byzantine Generals Problem
+- Failure Detectors
+- Wait Freedom
+- Self-Stabilization
+- Peer-to-Peer Computing
+- Overlay Structures
+- Distributed Scheduling and Load Balancing
+- Naming
+- Security
 
 # Reference Books
 
-- Book 1
-- Book 2
+- A D Kshemkalyani and MukeshSinghal, Distributed Computing: Principles Algorithms, and Systems, Cambridge University Press 2008
+- G Colouris, J Dollimore, and T Kindberg, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 3/e Pearson Ed. 2002
+- A S Tanenbaum and M van Steen, Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 3/e Pearson Ed. 2002
+- V K Garg, Principles of Distributed Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996
+- Sukumar Ghosh, Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach, 2/e Chapman& Hall
+- V K Garg, Principles of Distributed Computing, IEEE Press
+- Nancy Lynch, Distributed Algorithms, Morgan Kaufmann Press.Gerard Tel, Introduction to Distributed Algorithms, Cambridge University Press
 
 # Outcomes
 
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-- Outcome 2
+- Able to apply knowledge of operating systems and networks to distributed systems.
+- Design distributed algorithms for complex computing problems.
+- Analyze the performance of algorithms and evaluate the scalability of solutions.
+- Adapt existing centralized algorithms to distributed set up.
+- Simulate the algorithms in distributed environment.