This course will expose students to research in building and scaling Internet applications. Covered topics include Web services, scalable content delivery, applications of peer-to-peer networks, and performance analysis and measurements of Internet application platforms. The course will be based on a collection of research papers and protocol specifications. Students will be required to read the materials, present a paper in class, prepare short summaries of discussed papers, and do a course project (team projects are encouraged).
Grading: Paper presentation (35%), paper summaries (20%), project (35%), class participation (10%)
Prerequisites: A good general networking course (eecs325 or eecs425 or equivalent) or consent of the instructor.
Course materials: If you are auditing the class without being enrolled and would like access to the on-line materials please send me mail and I will add you to the Blackboard site for this course. (I think this is a better way to make the materials available because it will also let you get onto the calss mailing list.)