Dear students,

here you'll find information on the teaching activities and the long-term teaching agenda of the Distributed Systems team. If you plan to attend some of our courses or if you plan to do your area of specialization/focus with us, you find basic information on this page.

Please let us know, if any information is missing or if there are inconsistencies with DPO or the Bachelor/Master programs. Please do also accept our apologies for any unplanned dynamics in the teaching program. We constantly adapt our courses to newest topics/results in networking, systems and distributed systems research.

Calendar

We maintain a calendar of our teaching events (iCal) online. So you can integrate it into your personal electronic calendar.

Teaching Agenda

We offer lectures, seminars, labs, reading and discussion groups in the area of networking, systems, distributed systems. Our core research fields are Communication Systems Engineering, (Massively) Distributed Systems, and Network Architectures. Topics of our teaching program are closely related to our research activities and namely cover the following areas:

• Design and analysis of communication systems (Communication Systems Engineering)
• Architectures, protocols, systems, and software for scalable, flexible, resilient, and secure communication systems
• Massively distributed systems
• Decentralized coordination and self-organization
• Peer-to-Peer systems and applications
• Wireless sensor networks
• Operating system issues of networking
• ... and many more (please check also our research agenda).

Bachelor Courses (in German)

• Vorlesung "Betriebssysteme und Systemsoftware"
  Mandatory course (4+2 SWS) in the 3rd semester, offered yearly in winter terms by different professors
  Topics: Introduction to Operating Systems, Concepts: Processes, Scheduling, Concurrency, Virtual Memory, IO Control, File Systems.
• Vorlesung "Sichere Verteilte Systeme" (Rechnernetze I)
  Mandatory course (3+2 SWS) in the 4th semester, offered yearly in summer terms by Prof. Klaus Wehrle
  Topics: Introduction to Communication Systems, Concepts: ISO OSI Layering, Physical Layer, Media Access, Routing, Transport, Security.
• Lecture "Communication Systems Engineering" (Rechnernetze II)
  Elective subject course (Wahlpflichtfach) (3+1 SWS) in the area of 'Information and Communication', 5th semester, offered yearly in winter terms by Prof. Klaus Wehrle
  Topics: Advanced communication networks, Fundamental paradigms in communication systems, Design and Evaluation of Communication Systems.
• Proseminar "Grundlagen Rechnernetze und Internet"
  offered yearly in summer term by the DS team
  Selected, basic topics in communication systems.
• Seminar "Hot Topics in Communication Systems Research"
  offered in summer and winter terms by the DS team
  Topics cover all areas in distributed systems and communication systems.

Master Courses

• Lecture "Communication Systems Engineering" (Rechnernetze II)
  Lecture (3+1 SWS) 1st semester in any C.S. Master Programm (if not heard in BSc), offered yearly in winter terms by Prof. Klaus Wehrle
  Topics: Advanced communication networks, Fundamental paradigms in communication systems, Design and Evaluation of Communication Systems.
• Lecture "Massively Distributed Systems" (Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications)
  Lecture (2+1 SWS) 2nd semester in any C.S. Master Programm, offered yearly in summer terms by Prof. Klaus Wehrle.
  Topics: Scalable communication systems, Distributed Hash-Tables, Peer-To-Peer Networks, Reliability, Scalability.
• Lecture "Mobile Communications and Sensor Networks"
  Lecture (3+1 SWS) 2nd semester in any C.S. Master Programm, offered yearly in summer terms by Prof. Klaus Wehrle
  Topics: Introduction to Wireless Communication, Ad-hoc networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobility, WiFi.
• Seminar "Hot Topics in Communication Systems Research"
  offered in summer and winter terms by the DS team
  Topics cover all areas in distributed systems and communication systems.
• Lab "Sensor Networks Lab"
  offered in summer terms by the DS team
  Hands on development of distributed systems and algorithms.
• Lab "Mobile Communications Lab"
  offered in winter terms by the DS team
  Hands on development mobile systems.

Discussion and Reading Groups

We constantly offer so-called discussion and/or reading groups for interested students. Currently, we offer:

• Network Architecture (Future Internet Design)
• Methodologies of Protocol Evaluation (Network Simulation)

Combinations with other courses

You may combine the above courses with lectures on

• Distributed Systems: Prof. Otto Spaniol (i4)
• IT/Network Security, Cryptography: offered by Prof. Ulrike Meyer (LuFG ITsec)
• (Network and Systems) Performance Analysis: offered by Prof. James Gross (UMIC Performance Group)
• (Mobile) Communication Systems: offered by Prof. Petri Mähönen (MobNets, EE)
• Embedded Systems: Prof. Stefan Kowalewski (i11)
• Signal Processing, Information Theory: offered by Prof. Peter Vary (IND, EE), Prof. Rudolph Mathar (TI, EE), Prof. Anke Schmeink (UMIC IT)
• System Theory, HW Design: Prof. Gerd Ascheid (ISS, EE), Prof. Rainer Leupers (SSS, EE)

Diploma Courses -- Specialization (Vertiefung) in Distributed Systems

For Diploma students, we (still) offer the area of specialization/focus (Vertiefungsgebiet) "Distributed Systems". It consists of all lectures offered by the DS team and may be extended by some courses offered by the chair of Informatik 4 or other chairs.