Course of

Elective in Networking and Systems

Prof. G. Bongiovanni

bongiovanni at di dot uniroma1 dot it

giancarlo dot bongiovanni at uniroma1 dot it

Master's Degree in Computer science

Academic year 2020/2021

Second year of Degree - First semester

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

The course has now its own Google group:

https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/uniroma1.it/g/elective-in-networking-and-systems

feel free to read it and post on it.

Also, consult often and read carefully ALL THE SECTIONS of the Sapienza page pertaining to this organization of the teaching activities:

https://www.uniroma1.it/en/notizia/covid-19-phase-3-person-and-online-classes-exams-and-graduation-sessions

This page will explain how the things will go and what you must do. In particular, the section "In-person lectures" explains how you will book your place in the classrom using the new online seat reservation system, Prodigit Sapienza.

General description of the course

The course has the goal to introduce students to Cloud computing, illustrating its general characteristics, the underlying technologies, the main working mechanisms and the most relevant challenges.

Prerequisites

Students are supposed to possess the knowledge typically provided by a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science in the fields of Computer architecture, Ethernet networks, TCP/IP protocol stack, Multi-tier applications, Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography.

Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course students will possess advanced knowledge of:

• characteristics of cloud computing services;

• characteristics of data centers;

• characteristics of virtualization;

• characteristics of virtualization automation.

Applying knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course students will be able to:

• apply the learned methodologies to the analysis of cloud services and related computing infrastructures;

• deal autonomously with further recent research results and contribute to the development of new solutions.

Class schedule

IMPORTANT: Students which have registered for attendance of lectures have already received the Zoom invitation link. If you didn't, send me an email from your institutional Sapienza address (@studenti.uniroma1.it) and I will send you the link.

Characteristics of the final exam 

The final exam is in form of an oral exam, concerning all the arguments illustrated in the lecture notes. 

Please note that you have to be regularly enrolled in the second year of the Degree in order to take the exam.

Exam dates

The oral exams will be held in the months stated below. Exact dates will be published as soon as they will be established.

IMPORTANT - The exams of june, july and september 2021

will be taken at distance, on the Google Meet platform.

Please read carefully this document, contaning important informations on how to participate to

the exams taken at distance.