EE 382 N Vijay Garg Fall 2004
Term Paper
A term paper is required for EE 382N.
The paper will be due on December 2.
It should be approximately 10 pages.
The source code for the project shoulb be attached as an appendix.
A project should be done by a team of two students.
All projects must be done in Java.
The list of projects given below is just suggestive;
you can work on any other topic related to distributed systems.
Message Logging and Recovery
Implement a process recovery technique in a distributed system based on optimistic
message logging.
P2P Systems
Study various algorithms available for P2P data sharing.
Implement one of the algorithms.
Comparison of Internet Computing Techniques
The goal of this project is to compare various methods of distributed computing
over the Internet. You need to choose three of the techniques
available (Web Services, .NET, CORBA, Jini etc.) and
implement a simple table service based on all three styles of programming.
Compare these programming techniques based
on the performance, ease of use and other metrics.
Grid Computing
Implement a toy grid computing system that can be deployed over
a local area network. You may make simplifying assumptions such as
all computers belong to the same domain and that security is not
an issue.
Distributed Simulation
Implement a conservative or an optimistic distributed simulation
algorithm.
Distributed Agreement
Implement various algorithms for agreement in asynchronous systems under
crash failures.
In particular implement Lamport's Paxos based algorithm,
Input condition based consensus algorithm by Raynal et al. and
Chandra and Toueg's failure detector based consensus algorithm.
Byzantine Agreement
Investigate algorithms for Byzantine agreement proposed in literature.
Implement at least two alternative algorithms.