Distributed Systems 98/99
This page contains the lecture notes that I am going to use in the second 
term 98/99 when teaching Distributed Systems to MSc students of the Electrical
Engineering Dept. 
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Distributed Systems and Telecom (Guest Lecture by Prof. Steve Wilbur)
 
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Distributed
System Case Studies
 
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Distributed
System Principles
 
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Object
Models for Distributed Systems
 
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The
Unified Modeling Language
 
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Designing
Distributed Objects
 
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Principles
of Distribution Middleware
 
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Case
Study: OMG/CORBA
 
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Case
Study: Microsoft COM
 
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Case
Study: Java/RMI
 
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Resolving
Programming Language Heterogeneity
 
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Resolving Hardware and Operating System Heterogeneity
 
 
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Genericity
 
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Advanced
Communication
 
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Naming
 
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Trading
 
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Distributed
Object Life Cycle
 
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Mobility (Guest Lecture by Dr. Steve Hailes)
 
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Persistence
 
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Concurrency
Control
 
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Transactions
 
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Distributed
Transaction Processing
 
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Encryption
and Key Distribution
 
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Authentication,
Access Control, Auditing and Non-Repudiation