COSC7397 Advanced Topics: Distributed Computing

Reading List

Instructors:

Jaspal Subhlok and Rong Zheng  with participation of Edgar Gabriel({jaspal, rzheng, gabriel} at cs dot uh dot edu)
Contact Jaspal for administrative queries.

Course Overview:

The main goal of this course is to make graduate students familiar with selected current research in distributed computing systems, develop presentation and critical skills, and execute a significant systems project. The course is open to Ph.D. and Master students with some background in computer systems. The course will consist of presenting and critiquing research papers in the selected areas and a project related to the relevant topics. This semester we will focus on the following content areas:

Course format:

The course would consist of paper critique and presentation, peer feedback, final project and optionally a final oral exam. Papers will be mainly selected from highly-rated networking and distributed computing conferences in the past few years, e.g., HPDC, Supercomputing,  SIGCOMM, MOBICOM, INFOCOM, PODC.
Tentative wight for various components of the course is: Presentations (25) , Paper Critiques (15) Class Participation (10)   and Project (50)
The students have a lot of freedom in selecting projects.

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of Computer Systems and Networks and computer programming skills are essential. Graduate courses in Operating Systems, Computer Networks, and Parallel Computing would be helpful but are not required. We encourage you to consult with one of  the instructors to determine if the course is right for you.

Course Website:    http://www.cs.uh.edu/~jaspal/cosc7397

Class schedule:     Tuesday 4-7 PM.

Resources:

Citeseer  and Google Scholar
(Excellent searchable database containing most publications and cross references in Computer Science)

- Click here to access ACM Digital Library
- Click here to access IEEE Xplore
Then follow the instructions on the screen.