| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading Due |
Assignments Due |
Materials |
| 1 |
Jan 22 |
Overview/HTML |
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Overview |
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Jan 24 |
Distributed Computing Models |
Chapters 1 & 2 |
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Distributed Computing Models |
| 2 |
Jan 29 |
Communication/Data Representation |
Chapters 4 & 5 |
Getting Started/HTML |
Communication and Data
Representation |
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Jan 31 |
XML |
A Technical
Introduction to XML
XML
DTDs vs XML Schema
Using
W3C XML Schema |
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XML |
| 3 |
Feb 5 |
Web Services |
Chapter 19
RESTful
Web Services by Richardson and Ruby
Roots of
the REST/SOAP Debate
Web
Services/SOAP and CORBA |
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Web Services |
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Feb 7 |
RESTlets |
http://www.restlet.org/ |
XML |
RESTlet Notes |
| 4 |
Feb 12 |
Time and Global States |
Chapter 11 |
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Time and Global States |
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Feb 14 |
XSLT |
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Using the RESTlet Framework |
XSLT |
| 5 |
Feb 19 |
Coordination |
Chapter 12 |
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Coordination |
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Feb 21 |
More Web Services |
Google
Documents API |
XSLT |
More Web Services |
| 6 |
Feb 26 |
Fault Tolerance/Group Communication |
Chapter 4 - Section 4.5
Host
Multicast: A Framework for Delivering Multicast to End Users
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ipmulti.htm
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Multicast and Group
Communication |
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Feb 28 |
Replication |
Chapter 15 |
Using Apps |
Replication |
| 7 |
Mar 4 |
Replication |
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Mar 6 |
Demos |
|
Book Download Site Part 1 |
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| 8 |
Mar 11 |
Review |
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Review Sheet |
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Mar 13 |
Exam 1 |
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| 9 |
Mar 25 |
Concurrency/Transactions |
Chapter 13 & 14 |
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Transactions |
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Mar 27 |
Transactions |
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| 10 |
Apr 1 |
Catch-up |
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Apr 3 |
P2P |
Peer-to-Peer
Computing
Looking Beyond the Legacy of Napster
and Gnutella |
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P2P Tutorial and DHTs |
| 11 |
Apr 8 |
CAN/Project Questions |
A Scalable
Content-Addressable Network
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Apr 10 |
Demos |
|
Book Download Site Part 2 |
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| 12 |
Apr 15 |
Project 3 Discussion |
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Apr 17 |
Chord |
Chord:
A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications
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| 13 |
Apr 22 |
Project 3 Meeting Day |
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Apr 24 |
Dynamo |
Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store |
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Dynamo |
| 14 |
Apr 29 |
Sensor Networks |
Wireless
Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring
Fidelity
and Yield in a Volcano Monitoring Sensor Network |
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WSN Overview |
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May 1 |
Project 3 Questions/More Sensor Networks |
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| 15 |
May 6 |
Demos |
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Final Project |
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May 8 |
Finished! Exam Review |
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May 13 |
Final Exam |
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