With Professor Clark Elliott https://www.cdm.depaul.edu/Faculty-and-Staff/Pages/faculty-info.aspx?fid=320
An introduction to distributed systems. Topics may include: architecture of distributed systems; networking; datagram-oriented and stream-oriented protocols; network programming (for example, the sockets API); remote procedure call and remote method invocation; processes and threads; code migration; software agents; naming of non-mobile and mobile entities; cryptography and security.