Organizational Information

• Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Klaus Wehrle
• Teaching Assistants: Stefan Götz, Georg Kunz, Elias Weingärtner
• Campus: Credits: 3+1 SWS (V3+Ü1), ECTS Credits: 6
• Appointments and Locations:
  • Lecture:
    • 23.10., 30.10., 06.11.: Thursday 15:00 - 16:25, AH 1
    • 10.11. and later: Monday 13:15 - 15:45, AH 1 (weekly)
    • The slides can be downloaded from the MDS1 course room in L2P
  • Exercises:
    • 20.11.2008, 04.12.2008, 18.12.2008, 08.01.2009, 22.01.2009, 05.02.2009: Thursday 15:00 - 16:00, AH I
    • The assignments are available in the MDS1 course room in L2P
    • To participate in the exercises and the exam, register via CAMPUS Office
  • Exam (written):
    • Wednesday, 18.2.2009 10:30 - 12:30, lecture halls AH 1 and AH 3
    • Assignment of student IDs:
      • AH 1: 284100 - 999999 Master, Bachelor, ALL Diploma students
      • AH 3: 000000 - 284099 Master, Bachelor
    • To participate in the exam, you need to pass the assignments and exercises
  • Exam grading review: Friday, 06.03.2009 10:00 - 12:00, i4 Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Building E1
  • Second exam (written): Wednesday, 11.03.2009 10:00 - 12:00, AH 1
  • Second exam grading review: Friday, 20.03.2009 10:00 - 11:00, i4 Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Building E1

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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

• Steinmetz, Wehrle (Eds.): Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, Springer, 2005.