CSE3002 - Distributed computing systems

Leader: P Granville and A Zaslavsky

Offered

South Africa Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

Architecture of distributed systems; networking and internetworking; interprocess communications and RPC; distributed operating systems; mobile computing systems; distributed database systems; distributed file systems; proprietary approaches to distributed computing; object technology in distributed systems; failure recovery and fault tolerance issues; concurrency control in distributed systems; synchronisation and replication in distributed systems; security in distributed systems.

Assessment

Examination (2 hours): 50%
Two practical assignments: 50%

Contact hours

2 hours per week

Prerequisites

COT2001 or CSE2318 or CSE3318, or COT2004 or CSE2004

Prohibitions

COT3002