IMPORTANT NOTE:The following schedule represents my current best guess concerning due dates (and everything esle). I am providing this information to give you a general idea of the pace and timing of the class. THESE DATES MAY CHANGE (especially for Spring because of DOGL.) Please do not depend upon this schedule in purchasing airline ticket or making other irrevocable scheduling decisions without consulting me first. You were warned.

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DAY TOPIC READING Assign. Out Assign. In
M1 Syllabus
Distributed Systems
Safety and Liveness properties		 1.1 to 1.3
 HW 0 (Join Moodle)
W1 Strong and weak models Chapter 1 HW0
F1 Guest Lecture Read Chapter 2 for background HW1
M2 MLK Day Service work or reflection
W2 Introduction of message passing Chapter 3.1, 3.2
F2 Complete Synchronous and Asynchronous Communications Finish Chapter 3
M3 Clock Synchronization and drift TBA HW 1
W3 Local clocks and causality (clocks)
F3 Logical and Vector Clocks

HW 1 due
M4 Mutal Exclusion
Lamport's Algorithm
W4 Ricart and Agrawala's Mutual Exclusion Algorithm
ME Bowtie Project
F4 Other ME Algorithms
M5 ME Rules
Lamport's
W5 Midterm Exam 4.1
F5 No Class - Midquarter Break  
M6 ME Token Passing
Centralized Solution (Client/Server)
Consensus in a dist. system
W6 Byzantine Generals Problem Byzantine Generals Problems
F6 Lamport's OM(m) Algorithm

M7 Mark Nelson's explanation
W7 Leader Election Algorithms
F7 Wrap up Leader Election Algorithms
M8 Leader Elections
W8 Max/min on a logical ring
F8 Synchronizers
M9 Distributed Security and attacks Chapter 19
W9 Malicious software
F9 TBA (bowtie problem?)(encryption issues?)

M10 Lab Day
W10 TBA/TBD

F10 Review and last quiz (mandatory)


M11 Final Exam:
MWF 1:20 Monday, 3/19, 6:30pm - 9:00 pm

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