Course: Distributed operating systems

Process Management in Distributed Systems

Process in Distributed Systems

• Processes and system structure
  Types of processes
• Operation on Processes in Distributed Systems
  Creation of new processes
  Termination of a process
  Distributed process scheduling and dispatching

• Processes and threads
• Models of Thread Application
  Dispatcher-worker model
  Team model
  Pipeline model(or producer-consumer model
• Operations on Threads
• Application of Threads in Clients and Servers
  Server with multiple threads
  Client with multiple threads
• Thread Package
  Services of the thread package
  Thread calls in a thread package
• Implementation of Thread Package
  User-level thread package
  Kernel-level thread package
  Kernel-user-level thread package

• Requirements of Remote Execution
• Remote Execution Policies and Mechanisms
  Activities of the remote execution policy
  Activities of the remote execution mechanism
• Remote Execution in Heterogeneous Systems
• Advantages of Remote Execution

• Features of Process Migration
  Activities of process migration policy
  Implementation of process migration
• Process Migration in Heterogenoues Systems
• Advantages of Process Migration