Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Must have knowledge about:

• Techniques for increasing the resilience towards accidental and/ or malicious errors in the considered type of a distributed system
• Methods and tools to achieve fault tolerant, secure and efficient operation of a distributed system.
• Protocol design to support distributed mode of operation in a communication network. Data access and data delivery in a scalable manner. Data management issues in complex networks
• how to formulate own competences related to PBL, incl. digital competences

Skills

Must be able to:

• conduct synthesis of theories, methods and techniques used for at least one of the following: robust communication; distribution, storage and processing of data in a distributed system; secure communication
• Design protocols and algorithms that are able to support e.g. disruption tolerant networking, multi-hop communication in sensor networks, embedded systems, real-time and multimedia systems, content distribution networks, peer-to-peer systems, large scale distributed systems, storage and file systems, autonomic computing, network security.
• reflect over own use of PBL methods and how these methods can be used in future projects and work situations.

Competences

• undertake the construction of a well-functioning distributed and/or communication system yielding high performance and efficiency or satisfying reliability requirements.
• Communicate the project work in sound scientific and academic form

Type of instruction

As descript in §17

Exam

Prerequisite for enrollment for the exam

• An approved PBL competency profile is a prerequisite for participation in the project exam

Exams