This is a new seminar in distributed systems technology and its
application to communication networks including Internet, mobile networks
and broadband networks.
The seminar will introduce concepts and design principles found in
distributed communications systems. Students will learn the fundamentals
in the classroom and through intensive network programming assignments and
group projects will become versed with the state of the art in distributed
systems approaches and technologies. Through hands-on
experience gained in the new EE Intel Lab students will make the link
between distributed systems' fundamentals, technologies and network
programmability.
The course will include a number of guest seminars from experts from
Industry to discuss next-generation network architectures, protocols and
technologies, e.g., a talk by Ericsson on "Cellular IP Networks",
Intel on "Active Networks" and xbind inc. on "Broadband Kernels".
The lab session will be software intensive and the class size is limited
to fifty students.
The electronic mail distribution for this class is
distributed@comet.columbia.edu
