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)