Characterization of Distributed Systems: Introduction, Focus on resource sharing, Challenges.

Remote Invocation: Introduction, Request-reply protocols, Remote procedure call, Introduction to Remote Method Invocation.

Distributed File Systems: Introduction, File service architecture.

Name Services: Introduction, Name services and the Domain Name System, Directory services.

Time and Global States: Introduction, Clocks, events and process states, Synchronizing Physical clocks, Logical time and logical clocks, Global states.

Coordination and Agreement: Introduction, Distributed mutual exclusion, Elections, Coordination and agreement in group communication, Consensus and related problems.

Distributed Transaction: Introduction, Flat and nested distributed transactions, Atomic commit protocols, Concurrency control in distributed transactions, Distributed deadlocks, Transaction recovery.