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Distributed Systems

Topics selected from:

• The challenges faced in constructing client/server software:
  • partial system failures,
  • multiple address spaces,
  • absence of a single clock,
  • latency of communication,
  • heterogeneity,
  • absence of a trusted operating system,
  • system management,
  • binding and naming.
• Techniques for meeting these challenges:
  • RPC and middleware,
  • naming and directory services,
  • distributed transaction processing,
  • 'thin' clients,
  • data replication,
  • cryptographic security,
  • mobile code.
• Introduction to Java RMI Programming.

Course Offerings

North Tce, Adelaide	NAAEC, Singapore
Semester 2, 2006	Term 2, 2006
Semester 1, 2007	Term 1, 2007
Semester 1, 2008	Term 1, 2008
	Term 3, 2008
Semester 1, 2009	Term 1, 2009
Semester 2, 2010	Term 1, 2010
Semester 2, 2011	Trimester 1, 2011
Semester 2, 2012	Trimester 1, 2012
Semester 2, 2013

Student Evaluations

• Adelaide, 2006 => Response
• Adelaide, 2008 => Response