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.
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)
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
