Organizational Information

• Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus Wehrle
• Appointments and Locations:
  • Lecture:
    • Tuesday 11:45h - 13:15h, AH VI (weekly, starting 23.10.)
    • Tuesday 14:30h - 16:00h (fortnightly, starting 30.10.), AH I
  • Exercises:
    • Next: after announcement in the lecture
      
    • But note that is usually (only after announcement): Wednesday, 15:00h - 16:00h, Room 5052
      
• Exam (written):
  • Tuesday, 26.02.2007, 11:45h - 13:15 h, AH I
    

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

  • Exam inspection will take place on Wednesday 2 April from 10:00 until 12:00 in room 4219 (E1)
• Begin: 23.10.2007
• 3+1 SWS (V3+Ü1)
• ETCS Credits: 6

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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.