Schedule

The winter quarter has 19 class meeting times. If you see your name as a presenter, you are expected to present the paper that day in class. There will not be a final in this class.

Day	Date	Topic	Presenter
1	Tue. Jan 6	Introduction and Expectations	Chris
2	Thu. Jan 8	Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System	Nate
		How to Make a Multiprocessor That Correctly Executes Multiprocess Programs	Class
3	Tue. Jan 13	The Byzantine Generals Problem	Craig
4	Thu. Jan 15	Last paper continued
5	Tue. Jan 20
6	Thu. Jan 22	Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process	Jeff
7	Tue. Jan 27	Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults	Hamid
8	Thu. Jan 29	Distributed Leader Election Protocols	Chris
9	Tue. Feb 3	The Part-Time Parliament	Taylor
10	Thu. Feb 5	Paxos Made Live: An Engineering Perspective	all
		How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus	all
11	Tue. Feb 10	Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance and Proactive Recovery	Kav
12	Thu. Feb 12	Base: Using Abstraction to Improve Fault Tolerance	Nate
		Separating Agreement from Execution for Byzantine Fault Tolerant Services	Craig
13	Tue. Feb 17	Fault-Scalable Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Services	Jeff
14	Thu. Feb 19	High-Throughput Byzantine Fault Tolerance	Hamid
15	Tue. Feb 24	Zyzzyva: Speculative Byzantine Fault Tolerance	Taylor
16	Thu. Feb 26	Fast Byzantine Consensus	Kav
		HQ Replication: A Hybrid Quorum Protocol for Byzantine Fault Tolerance	all
17	Tue. Mar 3	BAR Fault Tolerance for Cooperative Services	Nate
18	Thu. Mar 5	BAR Gossip	Craig
		The Paxos Register	Jeff
19	Tue. Mar 10	Rethink the Sync	Hamid
		Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System	Kav