Lecture: 3 hours
Discussion: 1 hour
Prerequisite: Course ECS 152B or ECS 165A
Grading: Letter; homework (30%), project (40%), technical paper presentation (30%)
Catalog Description:
Wide-area distributed information systems, data broadcast, multicast, publish/subscribe,
service differentiation, information retrieval, web caching. Offered in
alternate years.
Goals:
The intend of this course is to explore challenges and research issues that
arise when scaling information systems technology to a widely-distributed
environment such as the Internet. The objective is to prepare students to
conduct research in related issues.
Expanded Course Description:
Textbook:
A selection of technical papers addressing specific topics will be used.
No textbook is required.
Course Design:
This course is intended to be highly interactive. The main activity of the
lectures will be discussions based around a set of papers. All students
are required to read technical papers, to answer specific questions, and
to prepare new questions prior to class discussions. In addition, each student
is required to lead the discussion on one or two of these technical papers.
There are no exams.
Project:
The project constitutes a detailed literature survey that identifies key
problems that has been studied in wide-area distributed information systems,
a detailed experimentation design and initial results. Students are encouraged
to suggest their own topic at the proposal stage.
Engineering Design Statement:
Projects include implementation, measurements, and/or literature survey
of a topic that can be chosen from a set of suggestions.
ABET Category Content:
Engineering Science: 2 units
Engineering Design: 2 units
Instructor:
Prepared by: D. Aksoy (September 2002)
Overlap Statement:
There is no significant overlap with any other course.