Created as part of the Master of information Technology and Master of Applied Information Technology Units - 2009

This unit has been updated as part of a 2009 review and comparison of data with current Handbook, Syllabus + and Callista data.

22/1/2014 - Change to contact hours made to align with Handbook entry (bulk upload from CUPID extract). Approved by ADE.

1 July 2014: Included pre-requisite knowledge of network and data communications after discussion with sessional lecturer. For Semester 1,2015 offering.

6 August 2014: Amended objectives to comply with AQF requirements. Director Education Quality confirmed objectives are AQF compliant.

April 2017. On behalf of CE, adding Reasons for Change, and submitting on CE behalf. Updated exam duration from 3 to 2 hours as required by new University Examination procedures, effective S2 2017.

24/9/2019: Admin - adding 30 minutes reading time to the overall exam duration as per University requirements.

19/11/2020: Admin - this unit was disestablished at FEC 5/20 on 12/11/2020 as it is no longer required.

This unit is one of four core units in the Mobile Distributed Systems Specialisation in the Master of Information Technology (MIT) and Master of Applied Information Technology (MAIT). It is also available as an elective for all FIT masters

At the completion of this unit students should be able to:

• analyse critically and reflect on the concepts and characteristics of distributed and concurrent software;
• identify and evaluate common distributed and concurrent software designs;
• design distributed software applications using typical distributed software architectures;
• write distributed and concurrent software programs.

020103

This unit focuses on the design and programming techniques essential for developing distributed software systems and applications - with Java as the teaching language. The unit presents concurrent programming primitives and concepts for distributed systems. The unit also focuses on application of concurrent techniques in distributed system designs. Programming and implementation issues and techniques of distributed applications are studied. Enabling techniques for building distributed systems are analysed and evaluated. Distributed Software Patterns are presented. The unit also includes case studies of distributed programming paradigms and their applications (e.g. JINI, JavaSpaces).

On-campus

Examination (2 hours and 30 minutes): 50%, In-semester assessment: 50%

6

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

FIT

For MAIT students, FIT9017, FIT9018, FIT9019, FIT9030, FIT9020 and FIT4037