[cs63201] Scope of midterm 2

[Mikhail Nesterenko]

All the material we covered since the last midterm is on this
test. You'll be only tested on the material we covered in
class. Specifically:

- traversal, termination detection, global state recording and
permission-based DMX algorithms. Physical clocks are not on the exam
as we have not covered it.

The questions will revolve around the topic we covered in
class. However, you may have to go back to the textbooks and the
original papers to understand the material better.

Thanks,
--
Mikhail




Rizal Nor wrote: > Dear Dr. Nesterenko,
> 
> Am I right to assume that midterm 2 will cover from the slides
> 
> *
> 
>    - Managing physical clocks in distributed
> systems<http://deneb.cs.kent.edu/~mikhail/classes/aos/Slides/l20physicalclocks.ppt>
>    - Logical clocks<http://deneb.cs.kent.edu/~mikhail/classes/aos/Slides/l04logicalclocks.ppt>
>    - Global state
> recording<http://deneb.cs.kent.edu/~mikhail/classes/aos/Slides/l05snapshots.ppt>
>    - Termination
> detection<http://deneb.cs.kent.edu/~mikhail/classes/aos/Slides/l06termination.ppt>
>    - Distributed mutual exclusion - permission based
> algorithms<http://deneb.cs.kent.edu/~mikhail/classes/aos/Slides/l07DMX.ppt>
> 
> 
>    - Traversal<http://deneb.cs.kent.edu/~mikhail/classes/aos/Slides/l03traversal.ppt>
> (
>    starting from Awurbech)
> 
> Are we still expected to know stuff from the previous slides?
> What about the referenced papers?
> *