Presentations Topics & Schedule

Topic

Info

References

Presenting

Opposition

Time & Place

Misc

.Net

Focus on .Net's component concept, CLR and .Net Remoting. Also include some information about COM & COM+.

• MSDN1
• MSDN2
• Book: "Component Software: Beyond object-oriented programming" by Clemens Szyperski et.al, 2002, (ISBN 0-201-74572-0)

Group 4

Group 7

Thursday 01.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

Slides

Peer-to-peer

Description and comparison of Gnutella and Freenet.

• Peer-to-peer
• Gnutella
• Freenet
• An overview on Peer-to-Peer Information Systems
• Freenet2

Group 3

Group 1

Thursday 01.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

Slides-1 Slides-2
Slides-3

Mobile middleware

Description and comparison of CARISMA and MADAM.

• L. Capra et al, "CARISMA: Context-aware reflective middleware system for mobile applications", IEEE Transactions on softeware engineering, 29(10):929-945. October 2003. Look here !
• Floch et al, "Using Architecture models for runtime adaptability", IEEE Software, March/April 2004. Look here !

Group 2

Group 6

Thursday 08.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

Slides

Middleware for sensor networks and distributed sensor applications

Description of/introduction to such middleware.

• Kay Romer, Oliver Kasten, Friedemann Mattern, "Middleware challenges for wireless sensor networks", ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Communications Review, Vol.6 (No.4), 2002
• Yang Yu et al, Issues in Designing Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Network, Jan/Feb 2004
• W. B. Heinzelman et al, Middleware to support Sensor Network Applications", IEEE Network, Jan/Feb 2004

Group 5

Group 8

Thursday 08.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

Slides

Middleware for multimedia

A description of/introduction to some middleware platforms aimed at multimedia.

• Last year's slides on MW for dist. MM (Norwegian)
• Frank's Homepage (links to MULTE etc. currently not working)
• ADAPT
• MULTE
• Multimedia + middleware

Group 1

Group 2

Thursday 15.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

Slides

Streaming overlays

What are streaming overlays? A look at/comparison of some of the following; Splitstream, Coopnet, AquaLab, Coolstreaming, Joost.

• Splitstream
• Coopnet
• AquaLab
• Coolstreaming
• Joost

Group 7

Group 4

Thursday 15.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

Slides

Pub-sub

Basic pub-sub including concepts, applications, and semantics have been covered at the lecture. Yet, the lecture has not gone into implementation details and challenges. Students are to present either a typical imlementation (such as Siena or Gryphon) or fundamental problems of building pub-sub overlays as outlined in the listed PODC 2007 paper.

• Siena: "Design and evaluation of a wide-area notification service", Carzaniga et al, TOCS 2001.
• Gryphon: "Matching events in a content-based subscription system", Aguilera et al, PODC 1999.
• Constructing scalable overlays for pub-sub with many topics: problems, algorithms, and evaluation, PODC, 2007.
• Further references can be found in the following paper: Eugster et.al, "The Many Faces of Publish/Subscribe"

Group 6

Group 3

Thursday 22.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

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Group communication

The paradigm of view-oriented group communication is feature-rich. The lecture will cover the basic concepts in this area and consider a few representative properties:

• how they facilitate development of distributed applications,
• possible implementations and their cost.

The students are to consider a wider scope of group-communication properties and explore them to a greater depth by comparing alternative implementations. Alternatively, the students can take a representative group-communication system and consider the full range of properties it provides.

• Group Communication Specifications: a Comprehensive Study, ACM Computing Surveys
  (There is no need to consider the complicated liveness properties or the precise mathematical notation used there but just regard it as a survey or properties. It can also be used in search for further references.)
• virtual synchrony

Group 8

Group 5

Thursday 22.11, 10:15-12:00, 3B - IFI

Slides