Organizational Information

• Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus Wehrle
• Appointments and Locations:
  • Lecture:
    • Di 11:45h - 13:15h, AH VI
    • Di 14:30h - 16:00h (fortnightly, starting 24.10.), AH I
  • Exercises:
    • Mi 12:30h - 14:00h (fortnightly), AH III
      
• Exam (written):
  • Di, 20.02.2007, 11:45h - 13:45h, AH I
    Please register if you want to participate (Registration is closed).

    Please keep in mind that only non-programmable calculators are allowed in the exam.

  • The results of the exam are here.
    

• Begin: 17.10.2006
• 3+1 SWS (V3+Ü1)
• ETCS Credits: 6

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Next Exercise

• 07.02.2007: Discussion of 5th assignment

Contents

This course will focus on Peer-to-Peer systems and applications

Topics of the course:

• Characteristics, challenges and reasons of/for massively distributed systems
• Examples and design principles of massively distributed systems
• Peer-to-Peer systems and applications
  • Basics of Peer-to-Peer Networking: Motivation, characteristics, challenges, goals
  • Unstructured Peer-to-Peer systems, e.g. Gnutella, FreeNet, etc.
  • Structured Peer-to-Peer systems, mainly the concept of distributed hash tables (Chord, CAN, Pastry)
  • Peer-to-Peer applications, like end-system-based multicast, distributed file systems, instant messaging, P2P-VoIP, etc.

Material and Recommended Literature

• The slides of the lecture will be available for download here - after login follow the link to the MDS-1 lecture. Information on login and password will be provided in the lecture.
• Steinmetz, Wehrle (Eds.): "Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications", Springer, 2005.

Assignments

The assignments are available for download here - after login follow the link to the MDS-1 lecture.