Global States. Topics r Usefulness of global state r Difficulties in determining snapshot r Determining global state r Examples.
Introduction. Readings r Van Steen and Tanenbaum: 5.1 r Coulouris: 10.3.
DNS. Outline r Domain Name System r DNS Hierarchy r Resolution.
Physical Clocks. Topics r Physical Clocks r Clock Synchronization Algorithms.
Election Algorithms. Topics r Issues r Detecting Failures r Bully algorithm r Ring algorithm.
