Distributed Computing

Catalog description

Basic model of distributed computing. Asynchronous and synchronous message passing. Algorithms for distributed termination detection and their correctness proofs. The correctness requirements of safety, liveness, and fairness in distributed computations. Synchronization algorithms. Communicating Sequential Processes. Higher level language constructs for synchronization algorithms. Verification methods. Several seemingly correct but actually incorrect algorithms will be shown for the above problems to appreciate the subtle correctness problems in distributed algorithms.