Contents

• • Proforma
    • Original Aims of Project
    • Summary of Work Completed
  • Declaration of Originality
  
  
• Introduction
• Preparation
  • Requirements Analysis
    • Objectives
    • System Operation
  • Problems to be addressed
    • Network Structure
    • Server-Database Synchronisation
    • Creating New User Accounts
    • Security
    • Communication
    • Measuring the RTT Between Nodes
  • Tools
    • Language
    • Third-Party Libraries
    • Support Tools
    • Familiarisation with the Tools
  
  
• Implementation
  • Specification
    • System Operation
    • Message Data Format
    • User Database Data Format
    • System Specification
  • Common Components
    • MessageParser
    • NetMeasure
    • GossipConnection
  • Server Classes
    • SynchronisedObject
    • UserDatabase
    • ServerMeasure
    • ServerConnection
  • The Client
    • GossipClient
    • CtoSconnection, CtoCconnection and MessageQueue
    • Contact and ContactsDB
    • The Client GUI
  
  
• Evaluation
  • Familiarisation with the Tools
    • Addressbook
    • ECHO Server and Client
  • Common Components
    • MessageParser
    • NetMeasure
  • The Server
    • UserDatabase
    • LookupTable and ServerMeasure
    • ServerConnection
    • GossipServer
  • The Client
    • Contact and ContactsDB
    • CtoCconnection
    • CtoSconnection and GossipClient
  • System Testing
  
  
• Conclusions
  • Extensions
  
  
• Bibliography
• Testing Output
  • Familiarisation with the Tools
    • Addressbook
    • ECHO Server and Client
  • Common Components
    • MessageParser
  • The Server
    • UserDatabase
    • ServerMeasure
  • The Client
    • ContactsDB
    • CtoCconnection
    • CtoSconnection and GossipClient
  
  
• Sample Code
  • SynchronisedObject
  • GossipConnection
  
  
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