- Topics on transport layer performance evaluation, alternative transport layers
- Problems of routers and protocol converters
- Internetworking problems, routing performance
- Distributed programming environements, distributed testing,
testing of distributed programs, visualization in distributed programs
- Distributed system modeling and performance evaluation, Petri nets
- Distributed operating systems (DOS`s): general problems, scheduling,
distributed file systems, case studies of DOS`s, security and authentication problems
- Distributed deadlock detection algorithms
- Distributed termination detection algorithms
- Any distributed algorithm(s) for a specific area of application
- Distributed system management, network management
- Remote Procedure Call mechanisms, RPC issues and programming
- Load sharing, process migration
- PVM, MPE (only distributed system aspects)
- DNS, theory, structure and operation, performance, alternatives,
- Email, multimedia mail, sendmail and its configuration, X.400 and mail gateways
- X.500 directory services
- Network management in general
- Network security, encryption and authentication
- Other issues in Tanenbaum, Chapter 7, Application Layer
- Issues in electronic commerce, digital money