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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 1031
         lyu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk            
         TEL:   3943 8442

Office Hour:

         2-4pm Wednesday or by appointment

Tutor:

         Mr. HE, Shilin
         Engineering Building 101A
         slhe@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Announcement:

      There is no more face-to-face meeting for the class and no midterm examination. 
      We will redistribute the midterm weight (40%) to Homework and Project. 
      The followings are revised grade assessment scheme for ECLT5820: 
       1.Assessment will include Assignments (40%) and Project (60%) only.
       2.Project presentation will not be conducted in person.  Instead, each team should deliver a presentation package, 
            including (1) a ppt file, (2) a demo video (5-10 minutes long) to present the ppt file and demonstrate your project. 
       3.The deliverable for the Project, including the presentation package and the final report, has the following new submission deadline: 
            23:59:59pm December 13, 2019 (Friday).  Please follow the same procedure announced in the Project Specification 
            for submission to course mailbox (eclt5820@cse.cuhk.edu.hk).

Coursework:

 Homework (40%): 2 assignments, discussions allowed but no plagiarism.
 Group Presentation and Report(60%): 
        23:59:59pm December 13, 2019 (Friday)

Textbook:

The textbook is available online, please find it here.

Project:
Project specification
Project grouping deadline: Oct. 25, 2019
Proposal deadline: Nov. 6, 2019 (electronic version)
Presentation package and Final Report deadline: 23:59:59pm December 13, 2019 (Friday)

Group	SID1	SID2
1	1155134629	1155135478
2	1155134207	1155134543
3	1155132048	1155132163
4	1155132060	1155134555
5	1155129535	1155119507
6	1155119612	1155121473
7	1155134361	1155121656
8	1155130356	1155134196

Homework:
Policy on Late Submission: 1). Late within 2 days - 30% deduction 2). Late after 2 days - not allowed.

Assignment 1 Assignment 1 Answer Due: 23:59:59 Oct 9, 2019
Assignment 2 Assignment 2 Answer Due: 23:59:59 Nov 6, 2019

Schedule:

Date	Topics	PPT	Exercise	Reading
4/9	Topic 1: Characterization of Distributed Systems	lyuDS0 lyuDS1		Ch.1, 2
11/9	Topic 2: Communication and Remote Procedure Call	lyuDS2	exer2 exer2_ans	Ch.3, 4, 5, 6
18/9	Topic 3: Security	lyuDS3	exer3 exer3_ans	Ch.11
25/9	Topic 4: Naming, Trading and P2P Systems	lyuDS4	exer4_1 exer4_2 exer4_1_ans exer4_2_ans	Ch.10, 13
2/10	Topic 5: Time, Coordination and Agreement	lyuDS5	exer5 exer5_ans	Ch.14, 15
9/10	Topic 6: Concurrency Control	lyuDS6 Lecture Video	exer6 exer6_ans	Ch.16a
16/10	Topic 7: Transactions	lyuDS7	exer7 exer7_ans	Ch.16b, 17a
23/10	Topic 8: Fault Tolerance and Replication	lyuDS8	exer8 exer8_ans	Ch.17b, 18
30/10	No Class
6/11	Topic 9: Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing and RFID	lyuDS9		Ch.19
13/11	Class Canceled
23/11	Topic 10: Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Ethereum	lyuDS10	Lecture Video	Notes
27/11	Topic 11: Cloud Computing	lyuDS11	exer11 exer11_ans [https://panopto.cuhk.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8366e0a1-a847-4f6a-bff1-ab0e00942c2c	Lecture Video]]	Ch.21
13/12	Presentation package and Final Report due	Project Presentation

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