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COIT13229 Applied Distributed Systems
Assignment 3 – Report

Due date: Week 12 Friday (4th June 2021) 11:45 PM AEST ASSESSMENT

Weighting: 35%
Length: 2500 words 3

Objectives
This assessment item is designed to test your understanding on the techniques for creating a secure,
reliable and efficient distributed system. It should also address the emergent technologies and the
social impact arising from the ubiquitous nature of the distributed systems.
Assessment task
Your task for this assignment is to write a technical report defining some of the theoretical aspects you
have learnt discussing the security, scalability and dependability of the modern distributed systems. The
report should also address the relevance of these attributes towards cloud-based IoT and cyber physical
systems and the social impact of these systems.
Use the following guidelines to structure your report. Assume the reader of your report does not have a
clear understanding of any of the topics you discuss in your report. The length of the article should be
about 2,500(+/ - 100) words. Therefore, include the following topics in your report.
a) Define Distributed Systems including a system architecture.
b) Define the terms scalability, replication, dependability, fault tolerance with metrics to measure,
and security in relation to distributed systems.
c) Describe the emergent Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Edge computing with some examples.
Report should include system architecture including description of components in general, system
characteristics, and the prominent use of these systems along with the social impact and perception
in the general community.

Report
Introduction should have a brief description of the topics of your discussion. This section should also
introduce the organisation of the report, introducing each section of your report.
As the focus is on exposing your understanding of the theoretical aspects given above, pay attention to
define and explain terms which you will be using to build your argument in the later sections. You can
use the prescribed Textbook and other books or articles. Use diagrams as needed. The body containing
topical sections as required. Include in-text referencing following Harvard referencing style.
Conclusion. You should write a conclusion that will conclude the topics discussed and any suggestion
of further work in this area.
References
List the references using Harvard Author-date style.



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Assessment Submission

You should submit one file Report.docx to the Moodle online submission system, by the due date:
Assessment Item 3 Marking criteria

S. No Total Marks – 35 Marks

1
Introduction: clear and concise introduction of
topics and report contents.
3
2 Definition of distributed system and clearly
depicted system architecture
3

3
Definition of terms security, scalability,
dependability and fault tolerance with some metrics
to measure these attributes.
6
Cyber Physical Systems
4 Definition with system architecture and
components
3
5 System characteristics 2
6 Prominent uses with two examples 2
7 Critique on Security, scalability and dependability
issues.
4
8 Discuss edge computing and its importance in the
emergent technologies.
4
9 Social impact on community with relevance to
perception and privacy.
4
10
Conclusion: clearly written conclusion reporting
your findings.
2
11 Organisation of the report with appropriate
section heading, grammatically correct, well
formatted and within the allocated word limit.
2
Sub-total 35
Penalties
Late penalty -1.75 (5% per
Calendar day)
Plagiarism As per policy
Total 35


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