CSE 617 Advanced Networks (3 credits)
Catalog description:
Study of advanced networking techniques, client/server programming, and distributed processing. Critical analysis of these areas develops as students learn the strengths and weaknesses of these technologies through assigned programming projects.
Prerequisite:
Course Objectives:
- Describe the client/server programming methods including its strengths and weakness
- Compare various distributed processing techniques
- Describe the basic techniques behind web-service based application development
- Articulate and design appropriate architectural solutions for various problems
- Analyze networks and identify common problems and solutions for creating distributed applications
Required Topics (approximate weeks allocated):
- Network Programming (3)
- Review of socket programming
- Broadcast, multicast and streams
- Quality of service
- Multiplayer network programming techniques
- Client/Server Programming (3)
- Daemons, threads, monitors, pipes
- Web Services
- Thick and Thin client programming
- Distributed Programming (4)
- RPC, RMI and messaging applications
- Synchronization
- Monitors and parallelism
- Caching and federation techniques
- Security (1)
- Parallel computing solutions (2)
- Peer parallelism, grid computing
- Distributed synchronization techniques to solve large computing problems.
- Additional topics may include designing solutions utilizing Xwindows, winFrame and Remote Desktop applications
- Final Project Presentation (1)
- Examinations (1)