CPSC 668: Distributed Algorithms and Systems
Fall 2006
Homework 7

Due: beginning of class on Mon, Dec 4.

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. Marco Schneider, "Self-stabilization," ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 25, no. 1, March 1993, pp. 45-67.
  2. Felix Gaertner, "A Survey of Self-Stabilizing Spanning-Tree Construction Algorithms," LPD Report 2003-017, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Available at http://infoscience.epfl.ch/search.py?recid=52545