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Lecture Notes

Computer System Engineering, BGP Routing

Computer System Engineering, Networking Guide

Computer System Engineering, Quick Guide

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 1 Coping with Complexity: Enforced Modularity via Client/Server Organization

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 2 Naming in Systems

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 3 Domain Name System (DNS)

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 4 Bounded Buffers and Locks

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 5 Threads

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 6 Operating Systems Structure and Virtual Machines

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 7 Performance

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 8 Introduction to Networking

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 9 Routing

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 10 Routing (BGP)

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 11 Transport layer

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 12 In-Network Resource Management

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 13 Networking: P2P Networks + Content Distribution Network (CDN)

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 14 Fault Tolerance: Reliability via Replication

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 15 Fault Tolerance: Introduction to Transactions

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 16 Atomicity via Logging

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 17 Fault Tolerance: Isolation

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 18 Distributed Transactions

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 19 Availability via Replication

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 20: Introduction to Security

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 21 Authentication and Passwords

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 22 Secure Channels

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 23 Network Security and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 24 Bitcoin

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 25 Tor

Computer System Engineering, Lecture 26 Policy vs. Mechanism

Course Info

Instructor

Dr. Katrina LaCurts

Departments

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Spring 2018

Level

Undergraduate

Course Info

Instructor

Dr. Katrina LaCurts

Departments

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

Spring 2018

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

Engineering
- Computer Science

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