Leader: Mohamed Gaber

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2008 (Evening)

Synopsis

Distributed databases including data model partitioning, fragmentation, replication issues, query optimisation, concurrency control, restart and recovery, transaction management, distributed design, communication models, client-server and peer-to-peer products.

Assessment

Written (3000 words): 40%
Practical work: 40%
Presentation: 20%

Contact hours

4 x contact hrs/week

Prerequisites

No prerequisites. However, basic background in database systems, SQL and Java programming would be helpful and useful.

Prohibitions

COT5200