CPSC 668: Distributed Algorithms and Systems
Spring 2008
Homework 5

Due: beginning of class on Fri, Apr 25.

Check course web page homework section for more information, especially regarding paper reviews and cover sheet.

Problems: The numbered exercises are from the textbook. Do your best to give rigorous proofs of all the results.

Paper Reviews:

  1. D. Malkhi and M. Reiter, "Byzantine Quorum Systems," Distributed Computing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 203-213, 1998.
  2. W. Golab, V. Hadzilacos, D. Hendler and P. Woelfel, "Constant-RMR Implementations of CAS and Other Synchronization Primitives Using Read and Write Operations", Proc. ACM Symp. on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pp. 3-12, 2007.