Distributed Systems 97/98


This page contains the lecture notes that I am going to use in the third term 97/98 when teaching Distributed Systems to MSc students of the Electrical Engineering Dept. 


          0. Preface

  1. Distributed Systems and Telecom (Guest Lecture by Prof. Steve Wilbur)
  2. Distributed System Case Studies
  3. Distributed System Principles
  4. Object Models for Distributed Systems
  5. The Unified Modeling Language
  6. Designing Distributed Objects

  7. Principles of Distribution Middleware
  8. Resolving Programming Language Heterogeneity
  9. Resolving Hardware and Operating System Heterogeneity
  10. Case Study: OMG/CORBA
  11. Middleware Integration
  12. Guest Lecture

  13. Genericity
  14. Advanced Communication
  15. Naming
  16. Trading
  17. Distributed Object Life Cycle
  18. Mobility (Guest Lecture by Dr. Steve Hailes)

  19. Persistence
  20. Concurrency Control
  21. Transactions
  22. Distributed Transaction Processing
  23. Encryption and Key Distribution
  24. Authentication, Access Control, Auditing and Non-Repudiation

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Wolfgang Emmerich
Updated on: 01/06/1998