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Module details
CO526 Distributed Systems and Networks (15 credits)
Syllabus
- Basic communication issues in distributed systems: bandwidth (sharing versus dedicated), layering of protocols, security, visibility, error recovery, routing, timing and coordination, groups. Ethernet and TCP/IP will be used as examples.
- Resource discovery in networks and distribution frameworks, e.g. DNS, WSDL/UDDI.
- Modelling, designing and implementing distributed systems: The client/server model, a description and comparison of middlewares (object interaction and messaging), interfaces and streams,. An overview of web services frameworks.
Note
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