Slide 1Global States Slide 2 Topics r Usefulness of global state r Difficulties in determining snapshot r Determining global state r Examples Slide 3 Readings r Van Steen…

Slide 1 DNS Slide 2 Outline r Domain Name System r DNS Hierarchy r Resolution Slide 3 Readings r Tannenbaum and van Steen:4.1 r Coulouris: 9.1-9.4 Slide 4 Hostnames r IP…

Slide 1 Physical Clocks Slide 2 Topics r Physical Clocks r Clock Synchronization Algorithms Slide 3 Readings r Van Steen and Tanenbaum: 5.1 r Coulouris: 10.3 Slide 4 Introduction…

Slide 1 Election Algorithms Slide 2 Topics r Issues r Detecting Failures r Bully algorithm r Ring algorithm Slide 3 Readings r Van Steen and Tanenbaum: 5.4 r Coulouris: 11.3…

Slide 1 Introduction Slide 2 Readings r Van Steen and Tanenbaum: 5.1 r Coulouris: 10.3 Slide 3 Definition From the Tanenbaum and Steen textbook: A distributed system is a…