UCL - Distributed application design

[INGI2346]

[30h + 15h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Marc Lobelle(coord.), Peter Van Roy

Language: English

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

-To design distributed applications, in particular to define the application protocols for these applications.Distributed applications consist of software components cooperating through a network. The network may be hostile and the applications can run on computers of different types and using different operating systems.

Main themes

- Main classical programming models for distributed applications.
- Introduction to the theoretical background of distributed applications.

Content and teaching methods

- Introduction
- Low level programming model (socket interface)
- Client / server model (rpc, rmi, ¿ interfaces) including security aspects
- Symmetrical programming model(PVM interface)
- Bases of theoretical background (concurrency and parallelism in access to information)

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

- Prerequisite:
(1) General knowledge in computer networking
(2) General knowledge in operating systems and ability to program in C on UNIX) (for instance LINF 1252, INGI 2113, INGI 2716)

- References :
(1) W.R. Stevens " UNIX Network Programming, vol 1 " Prentice Hall 1998
(2) Rpco Rmio Geist & al. " PVM : Parallel Virtual Machine " MIT Press 1994

- Assessment:
Written exam with the possibility to discuss the answers during the exam with the professor.