Networked Systems Design: Principles and Practices (CPE563)

Basic elements in local and wide-area network infrastructures, architecture and protocols at all layers; client/server systems programming using sockets and remote procedure calls; concurrency and coordination issues and techniques; concepts and tools for fault tolerance, failure detection, checkpointing, disaster recovery and rejuvenation in networked applications; overview of network systems middleware facilities such as .NET and Weblogic to illustrate the above principles and techniques. Prerequisite: Familiarity with C/C++.