Princeton University Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 461 Distributed Computing and Networking Spring 1999

Lecture Schedule

• February 2: Introduction; PD Chapter 1
• February 4: x-kernel Tutorial; PD Chapter 2
• February 9: Point-to-Point Links; PD Sections 3.1 - 3.5
• February 11: Shared Media; PD Sections 3.6 - 3.7
• February 16: Switched Networks; PD Sections 4.1 & 4.3
• February 18: Internet; PD Sections 5.1 - 5.2
• February 25: Scalable Routing; PD Sections 4.2 & 5.3
• March 2: TCP; PD Sections 6.1 - 6.2
• March 4: Congestion Control; PD Chapter 8
• March 9: Quality of Service; PD 9.3
• March 11: Midterm Exam
• March 23: Router Design I; PD 4.1.4 & 4.4
• March 25: Router Design II
• March 30: Mobile Code (Ed Felten, Guest Lecturer)
• April 1: Remote Procedure Call; PD 6.3 & 7.1
• April 6: Security; PD 7.3
• April 8: Multimedia; PD 7.2
• April 13: Naming; PD 5.6, CDK Chapter 9
• April 15: Distributed File Systems; CDK Chapter 8
• April 20: Replication: Time and Groups; CDK Chapters 10 and 11
• April 22: Transaction Processing
; CDK Chapter 12
• April 27: Scalable Storage and Cooperative Caching (Randy Wang, Guest Lecturer)