(Theory of) Distributed Systems
Summer Term 2024
Fabian Kuhn

 

Lecture Recordings and Material

Date	Topic	Recording	Slides	Reading Material
17.04.2024	Introduction, Two Generals			Introduction: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of [Aspnes] Two Generals: Chapter 8 of [Aspnes]
22.04.2024	Broadcast, Convergecast, Spanning Trees			Chapter 2 of [Wattenhofer] Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of [Aspnes]
29.04.2024	Leader Election in Rings			Chapter 3 of [Wattenhofer] Chapter 5 of [Aspnes]
06.05.2024	Consensus I			Chapter 11 and Chapter 18 of [Aspnes]
	Chapter 11 of [Aspnes] proves the impossibility of asynchronous consensus for message-passing systems, while in the lecture, we did the same proof for shared memory systems. Chapter 18 of [Aspnes] contains much more details about the consensus hierarchy than discussed in the lecture.
13.05.2024	Consensus II			Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 of [Aspnes]
	Chapters 9 (on synchronous consensus) and 10 (on Byzantine agreement) of [Aspnes] contain more details than what we discussed in the lecture.
27.05.2024	Coloring and MIS			The coloring algorithm for rooted trees also appears in Chapter 1 of [Wattenhofer]
	The lecture was prepared and prerecorded by Alkida Balliu. In the lecture on 27.05., we summarize and discuss the content of the video and some small additional topics that are directly related to the content of the video lecture.
03.06.2023	Randomized Coloring & MIS			The randomized MIS algorithm also appears in Chapter 7 of [Wattenhofer]
	The lecture was prepared and recorded by Dennis Olivetti. In the lecture on 03.06., we summarize and discuss the content of the video and possibly some small additional topics that are directly related to the content of the video lecture.
10.06.2023	Locality Lower Bounds			Linial's original version of the lower bound for 3-coloring rings is described in Chapter 8 of [Wattenhofer]. The simpler proof that was discussed in the lecture appeared in [Laurinharju,Suomela].
	The lecture was prepared by Dennis Olivetti. For a version of the lecture that was prerecorded by Dennis Olivetti, see the video below.
	prerecorded lecture
24.04.2024	CONGEST Model - Bandwidth Limitations			See also Chapter 11 of [Wattenhofer].
	The lecture was prepared by Alkida Balliu. For a version of the lecture that was prerecorded by Alkida Balliu, see the video below.
	prerecorded lecture
01.07.2024	Synchronization			Chapter 10 of [Wattenhofer].
08.07.2024	Massively Parallel Computations - Part I			Further details and a more advanced coverage of the topic can for example be found in Chapter 3 of [Ghaffari: Massively Parallel Algorithms].
15.07.2024	Massively Parallel Computations - Part II			Further details and a more advanced coverage of the topic can for example be found in Chapter 3 of [Ghaffari: Massively Parallel Algorithms].

Literature / Reading Material