IT 502 : Distributed Systems
Students' Sessional Seminar
Autumn 2007
The students of the course IT 502 : Distributed Systems are to
prepare a seminar as part of the coursework. Possible topics are listed
below. Each student shall take up an unique topic individually, search and
study literature on that topic and prepare a 4-6 page write-up summarizing
the matter covered in that literature. It will be appreciated if the
write-up contains open issues related to the topic covered.
The write-up should be prepared using the LaTeX software. The students
are also advised to use the BibTeX package for handling bibliography.
Important Dates
| Last date for submission of write-up |
| 8 Nov, 2007
|
| Seminar presentations |
| 12-16 Nov, 2007
|
List of possible topics
- ATM networks
- Object-based operating systems
- JavaOS
- CORBA
- DCOM
- LDAP
- Kerberos
- RSA
- DES
- SSH
- NTP
- Jini
- Threads Implementation and Demonstration
- A global-state-triggered fault injector for distributed system
evaluation
- Enforcing Enterprise-wide Policies Over Standard Client-Server
Interactions
- Automatic Model-Driven Recovery in Distributed Systems
- Structured P2P
- Unstructured P2P
- Energy aware computing
- Communication and routing
- Advanced routing protocols: GOSSIP/RUMOR/ANT
- Spread of attacks and analytical models
- Distributed systems for stopping worms
- Content Delivery Networks
- Dynamic document replication
- Measuring network latencies
- Measuring network bandwidths
- Fault detection
- Debugging distributed applications
- Virtual machines
- Handling huge amounts of data
Note: The page http://www.tezu.ernet.in/~utpal/atm07/atds_papers.php is a
list of relevant papers. The original URL of the list is
(http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gpierre/courses/atds/papers.php)