Reg.No.:[ |_| ies end Question Paper Code : 71687 B.EJB.Toch. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL/MAY 2017. Sixth Somestor Computer Sciencé and Engineering CS 6601 — DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (Common to Information Technology) (Regulations 2013) > ‘Time : Three hours eo” Maximum : 100 marks 9. 10. Answer ALL. questions: PART A—(10<2= 20 marke) What is the ined of openness in Distributed: system? oad : Define Transparency. What aroits types? State the advantages ot aghty ‘networks. Dideentiads babys Rad RPC. What are the main Saw routing overlay? How will eae use of name space and DNS? Define fedtien cut. What % the rules to abort the nested transaction? What are the sub activities involved in process migration? What is the basic idea behind task assignment approach?iL. @ (b) 12 @ 13. 4 ) @) ) @ ©) Gg) @ @) @ Gi) Gi) Gi) eo @ Gi) PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) What are the design issues to be considered in designing distributed systems? Explain in detail about each of them. Discuss in detail about the trends in distributed systems. ® Or Discuss in detail about the examples (any two) of distributed systems, 6) Utilize World Wide Web as an example to illustrate the concept of resource sharing, client and servor. « Explain in detail about Middleware layers land Nerf communication. aayv ® What is the. purpose of external data. ees and marshaling? Discuss. } ® Or at What is RMI? How itis implemented? Write notes on JAVA RML(®) How message queues are useful? Explain briefly. @) v ~ - Oy What N .y?-Explain in detail. 8) is meant by pat nent Bo in ® storage system. ® Explain in detail about on employed in Ocean store Ry __ Discuss the mount ines of rexiote file systems on NFS client. (8) List the different approaches to implement the Name Caches and explain shom brat ® Explain ¢héChandy and Lamports Snapshot algorithm for eerste? global states of distributed systems. ® Deas ciseeaiet a miutual exclusion algorithm that uses multicast and logical ®) “Or Explain detail about two phase commit protocol. ® ’ Summarize in detail about CODA. ®1) ® Gi) @ ) Explain how process migration is Spear in heterogeneous system. 8 Discuss’ tho issues rolated to thrbad programming, thread lifetime : and thread synchronization. ® Or Describe in detail about the Load balancing approach. 6) Give the techniques and methodologies for scheduling process of a distributed system. ® \s 71687