EE 382 N Vijay Garg Fall 04

TOPICS IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
TTh 12:30 - 2:00, ENS 116
Unique No. 16180

Instructor: Prof. Vijay Garg ; Office: ENS 516
Phone: 471-9424 ; e-mail: garg@ece.utexas.edu;
Office Hours: MW 3:00 - 4:30.
Prerequisites: EE 382N (Distributed Systems I), CS 380D (Distributed Computing), or consent of the instructor.

Course Contents: The course will cover some current topics in distributed systems. Much of the course will be based on recent papers in the area. Students will be expected to read and present papers assigned by the instructor. In addition, the students are expected to write a term paper based on their term project. The course is likely to cover a subset of the following topics. The set of topics covered significantly depends upon the interests of the students enrolled in the course.

• Theory Track: Failure Detectors, Fault-tolerant and Self-stabilizing distributed algorithms, Slicing, Detecting Temporal Logic Predicates, Internet Algorithms, Model Checking Concurrent Programs, Controlled Reexecution, Using error-correcting codes for fault tolerance.
• Systems Track: Grid Computing, Web Caching, P2P networks, Security in Distributed Systems, Mobile networks, sensor networks.

Grading:
50 % Class presentations
50 % Term paper

Course Material: Papers from various Journals.
Directory that contains handouts for the course
Course Evaluation: Standard ;
Add/Drop Policy: Standard

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