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News
- Project status report due 5 PM Friday November 23.
- Final exam scheduled for January 30, 14:15, CM2
- Moved the deadline for project
proposals to October 23, 23:59
- Students should immediately start working on the
homework.
- Add yourself to the class
mailing list.
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Objectives :
The Internet has changed the way people perceive computers, communicate and do
business. A key component of many successful Internet applications is a
scalable, high-performance, and highly-available distributed system. Moreover,
as the planetary-scale services become prevalent and grow in importance, it
becomes necessary to understand the distributed systems underpinnings that will
enable the future applications. This is a distributed systems course with an
experimental systems viewpoint: the course will discuss the architecture and
teach the understanding of the performance of real systems. The title of the
course reflects the blurring of boundaries between computer networks and
distributed systems, as often distributed systems are used to implement
large-scale services that could not be implemented and deployed solely at the
network level. The syllabus for this research-oriented course is driven by
published, current papers. After completing the course, the students should be
able to engage in doctoral-level research in this field. Paper evaluations that
demand critical reasoning will be a part of the grade. There will be a midterm
and a final group project report, with a goal of publishing the best projects in
top conferences (with additional work).
Content:
• Brief overview of networking aspects that impact planetary-scale
systems:
• Techniques for implementing scalable, large-scale network services at the
distributed systems level (overlay networks)
• Improving routing and availability of internet services using overlay
networks.
• Multimedia Streaming and Content Distribution: Content Distribution Networks
(CDNs), overlay trees, overlay meshes.
• Peer-to-Peer storage and wide-area file systems.
• Overlay network creation and programming: state-machine and query-based.
• Distributed systems performance debugging
• Emerging distributed systems
Required Prior Knowledge:
The course requires good knowledge of networking concepts and protocols,
operating systems (UNIX environment), and programming .
Keywords:
Distributed Systems, Overlay Networks, Peer-to-Peer Systems, Scalability,
High-performance
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