ECE 751Distributed and Network-Centric Computing

Units: 0.50
Level: Graduate
Faculty: Engineering
Subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 751 as listed in the Fall 2026 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.

Principles of distributed computing; architectures and middleware; servers, processes, and virtualization; upper-layer network protocols, inter-process communication and remote procedure calling; concurrency, synchronization and distributed algorithms; dependable distributed systems and fault tolerance.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in:
- ECE454
- ECE750

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

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Calendar versions

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In 13 terms, Winter 2020 to Winter 2024