ET7013 DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED COMPUTING

 ET7013        DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED COMPUTING 

UNIT I       THE HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURE

Broad Band Transmission facilities – Open Interconnection standards – Local Area Networks – Wide Area Networks – Network management – Network Security – Cluster computers.  

UNIT II       INTERNET CONCEPTS

Capabilities and limitations of the internet – Interfacing Internet server applications to corporate databases HTML and XML Web page design and the use of active components.  

UNIT III      DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING USING JAVA

IO streaming – Object serialization – Networking – Threading – RMI – multicasting – distributed databases – embedded java concepts – case studies.  

UNIT IV      EMBEDDED AGENT

Introduction to the embedded agents – Embedded agent design criteria – Behaviour based, Functionality based embedded agents – Agent co-ordination mechanisms and benchmarks embedded-agent. Case study: Mobile robots.

  

UNIT V      EMBEDDED COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE

Synthesis of the information technologies of distributed embedded systems – analog/digital co-design – optimizing functional distribution in complex system design – validation and fast prototyping of multiprocessor system-on-chip – a new dynamic scheduling algorithm for real-time multiprocessor systems.             

REFERENCES: 

1. Dietel & Dietel, “JAVA how to program”, Prentice Hall 1999. 

2. Sape Mullender, “Distributed Systems”, Addison-Wesley, 1993. 

3. George Coulouris and Jean Dollimore, “Distributed Systems – concepts and   design”,Addison –Wesley 1988. 

4. “Architecture and Design of Distributed Embedded Systems”, edited by Bernd Kleinjohann C-lab, Universitat Paderborn, Germany, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, April 2001, 248 pp.