Presentations Topics and Schedule

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Topic

Info

References

Presenting

Opposition

Time & Place

Slides

1

.Net

Focus on .Net's component concept, CLR and .Net Remoting. Also include some information about COM & COM+.

• MSDN1
• MSDN2
• Book: "Component Software: Beyond object-oriented programming" by Clemens Szyperski et.al, 2002, (ISBN 0-201-74572-0)

Group 9

Group 5

Thursday 23.10, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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4

Middleware for sensor networks and distributed sensor applications

Description of/introduction to such middleware.

• Kay Romer, Oliver Kasten, Friedemann Mattern, "Middleware challenges for wireless sensor networks", ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Communications Review, Vol.6 (No.4), 2002
• Yang Yu et al, Issues in Designing Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Network, Jan/Feb 2004
• W. B. Heinzelman et al, Middleware to support Sensor Network Applications", IEEE Network, Jan/Feb 2004

Group 2

Group 3

Thursday 23.10, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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10

Distribution transparency considered harmful?

Should distributed systems behave like centralized systems? This topic is a follow-up of the introduction lecture on design of distrbuted systems, It inlcudes the presentation of a paper by Jim Waldo et al "A Note on distributed computing" from 1994 and the subsequent discussions that this paper triggered. The latter requires a little research/googling by the students.

• Jim Waldo et al., A Note on Distributed Computing . Sun Micro Sys. Lab. 1994

• Discussion

Group 6

Group 8

Thursday 30.10, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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2

Peer-to-peer

Bittorent and its comparison with
other commonly used P2P networks.

• Peer-to-peer
• BitTorrent Protocol
• Bittorrent Measurements

Group 1

Group 2

Thursday 30.10, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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5

Video streaming on the Internet

This topic address video streaming on the Internet. Basic streaming concepts and priciples of solutions have been covered at the lecture. Yet, the lecture has not gone into implementation details. The focus should be on streaming servers and protocols for streaming video.

• Wu, D. et al., "Streaming video over the Internet: approaches and directions", IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 11 (3), 282-300, 2001.

Group 8

Group 10

Thursday 06.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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3

Mobile middleware

Description and comparison of CARISMA and MADAM. In particular analyse and explain how they differ in method of expressing adaptation policies (logic for deciding when and how to adapt).

• L. Capra et al, "CARISMA: Context-aware reflective middleware system for mobile applications", IEEE Transactions on softeware engineering, 29(10):929-945. October 2003. Look here !
• K. Geihs et al, "A comprehensive solution for application-level adaptation", Practice and Experience, DOI: 10.1002/spe.900 (published online), Wiley, 2008, 33p, Look here !

Group 5

Group 7

Thursday 06.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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9

Agreement Protocols

Describe Paxos as a representative consensus protocol
that is an important building block in many practical
systems (Google's Chubby, Yahoo's ZooKeeper, Microsoft's
Boxwood).

• Paxos Algorithm

(It is important to present and explain both the
protocol and its behavior under different failure
scenarios. Beware of inaccuracies: the article lists
liveness as a safety property.)

Group 4

Group 6

Thursday 13.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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7

Pub-sub

Basic pub-sub including concepts, applications, and semantics have been covered at the lecture. Yet, the lecture has not gone into implementation details and challenges. Students are to present either a typical imlementation (such as Siena or Gryphon) or fundamental problems of building pub-sub overlays as outlined in the listed PODC 2007 paper.

• Siena: "Design and evaluation of a wide-area notification service", Carzaniga et al, TOCS 2001.
• Gryphon: "Matching events in a content-based subscription system", Aguilera et al, PODC 1999.
• Constructing scalable overlays for pub-sub with many topics: problems, algorithms, and evaluation, PODC, 2007.
• Further references can be found in the following paper: Eugster et.al, "The Many Faces of Publish/Subscribe"

Group 3

Group 4

Thursday 13.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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Enterprise Java Beans in the enterprise

Guest Lecture

Harald S?vik

Thursday 20.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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8

Group communication

The paradigm of view-oriented group communication is feature-rich. The lecture will cover the basic concepts in this area and consider a few representative properties:

• how they facilitate development of distributed applications,
• possible implementations and their cost.

The students are to consider a wider scope of group-communication properties and explore them to a greater depth by comparing alternative implementations. Alternatively, the students can take a representative group-communication system and consider the full range of properties it provides.

• Group Communication Specifications: a Comprehensive Study, ACM Computing Surveys
  (There is no need to consider the complicated liveness properties or the precise mathematical notation used there but just regard it as a survey or properties. It can also be used in search for further references.)
• virtual synchrony

Group 7

Group 1

Tuesday 25.11, 14:15-15:00, Lille Auditorium - IFI

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6

Streaming overlays

What are streaming overlays? A look at/comparison of some of the following; Splitstream, Coopnet, AquaLab, Coolstreaming, Joost.

• Splitstream
• Coopnet
• AquaLab
• Coolstreaming
• Joost

Group 10

Group 9

Thursday 27.11, 09:15-10:00, Lille Auditorium - IFI

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