This is a final year module on the BSc in Software Development.
Credits
10
Teaching & Learning Strategies:
Learners will be expected to activity participate in class on the materials covered and work throughout each scheduled lab session to accomplish assigned tasks.
Module Aim:
To provide learners with a theoretical knowledge and practical skills of developing concurrent and distributed systems, with particular emphases on the Internet of Things.
Learning Outcomes
| LO1 | Assess the different approaches to developing concurrent and distributed systems. |
| LO2 | Design, develop and test concurrent and distributed systems. |
| LO3 | Demonstrate the principles of design and development of Internet of Things systems and applications. |
| LO4 | Evaluate proposed concurrent and distributed architectural designs. |
| Indicative Content |
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| Architecture Flynn’s Taxonomy, Multicore, Manycore and Stream Processors |
| Concurrency Shared Memory Model, Message Passing Model, Software Transactional Memory and Actors |
| Distribution Replication, Fault Tolerance, Load Balancing and Scalability |
| Internet of Things Architecture, Software and middleware platforms, Interfaces, Communication and Cooperation, Security, Sensing, Embedded Devices, Testing and Standardisation |
| Business Models IoT Governance, Societal and Ethical Implications |
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
|---|---|
| Continuous Assessment | 30.00% |
| Practical | 30.00% |
| End of Module Formal Examination | 40.00% |
Module Resources
| Recommended Book Resources |
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| Logan Martin, Merritt Eric, Carlsson Richard, Erlang and OTP in Action, Manning Publications [ISBN: 9781933988788] Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised Reprint, Morgan Kaufmann [ISBN: 0123973376] Michael McCool, James Reinders, Arch Robison, Structured Parallel Programming, Morgan Kaufmann [ISBN: 9780124159938] Clay Breshears, The art of concurrency, Beijing ; O’Reilly, c2009. [ISBN: 9780596521530] Multicore and GPU Programming, San Diego; Morgan Kaufmann [Imprint] [ISBN: 9780124171374] Jan Holler, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Catherine Mulligan, Stephan Avesand, Stamatis Karnouskos, David Boyle 2014, From Machine-to-Machine to the Internet of Things: Introduction to a New Age of Intelligence, Academic Press [ISBN: 9780080994017] |
| Supplementary Book Resources |
| P. Butcher 2014, Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks, Pragmatic Bookshelf George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, Addison Wesley [ISBN: 0132143011] Nancy A. Lynch 1997, Distributed algorithms, Morgan Kaufmann San Francisco, Calif. [ISBN: 9781558603486] Ovidiu Vermesan, Peter Friess 2013, Internet of Things: Converging Technologies for Smart Environments and Integrated Ecosystems, River Publishers [ISBN: 9788792982735] Olivier Hersent, David Boswarthick, Omar Elloumi, The Internet of Things, Wiley [ISBN: 9781119994350] Holger Karl, Andreas Willig 2007, Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks, Wiley |