Lecture Schedule

Lecture Date/Time: Mondays, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Venue: LT15

Lectures are organized into three parts: (a) Classic DDB; (b) Parallel DB; (c) Advanced. The lecture notes in (a) are adapted from the notes by Hector (from Stanford).

Session	Date/Time	Topics (Notes)	Readings/ Supplementary
L1	13 Aug	Introduction (2pages, 6pages) Distributed Database Design	Chapter 4 (Ref 1) Supplementary note (2pages, 6pages)
L2	20 Aug	Distributed Database Design (2pages, 6pages)	Chapter 5 (Ref 1)
L3	27 Aug	Query Processing (2pages, 6pages)	Chapter 8 (Ref 1) Supplementary note (2pages, 6pages)
L4	3 Sept	Query Optimization (2pages, 6pages)	Chapter 9 (Ref 1) Supplementary note (6pages)
L5	10 Sept	Concurrency Control (2pages, 6pages)	Chapter 11 (Ref 1)
L6	17 Sept	Distributed Commit (2pages, 6pages)	Chapter 12 (Ref 1)
	24 Sept	MID-SEMESTER BREAK
L7	1 Oct	Parallel DBMS I (2pages, 6pages)	Chapter 13 (Ref 1) Paper
L8	8 Oct	Parallel DBMS II
L9	15 Oct	Mediator Systems and Their Capabilities (2pages, 6pages)	Paper I Paper II
L10	22 Oct	Replication (2pages, 6pages)	Reading
L11	29 Oct	Dynamic Data Dissemination (Publish/Subscribe) (2pages, 6pages)	Paper I Paper II
L12	5 Nov	Monitoring Queries (Event Detection) in Sensor Networks (2pages, 6pages)	Paper I Paper II
L13	12 Nov	Revision (2pages, 6pages)
FINAL EXAM	03 Dec 2007 Monday 7.30pm-9.30pm	ALL TOPICS COVERED	Location: SR3A/B, COM1 (Level 2)