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Presentations

The last four classes of 6.852J are devoted to presentations of new papers, not covered in the textbook, by students in the class. The main responsibility for this rests on the Advanced students, but the Basic students are still expected to read the papers, participate in class, and perhaps work out some homework problems based on this material. The Advanced students work either individually or in small groups (no more than 3) to read and present papers from those listed in the readings section. Students are expected to read the chosen papers completely, understand them in depth, and present them to the rest of the class. Students should not repeat what the authors say literally, but should try to extract the important ideas from the papers and present them in a clear and economical way. This may mean, for example, reading other related papers, restating the authors definitions and results, filling in missing details, or relating the work to other things covered in class. This section provides examples of these presentations.
A Brief Introduction to Paxos, by Dion Harmon and Jason Burns (PDF
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Replication Algorithm, by Jingyi Yu (PDF)
Computing with Infinitely Many Processes Under Assumptions on Concurrency and Participation - M. Merritt & G. Taubenfeld, by Dean Christakos and Deva Seetharam (PDF)
Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Service, by Jacob Strauss and Edwin Olson (PDF)
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, by Seth Gilbert (PDF)
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, by Tina Nolte, slides (PDF) and notes (PDF)
Self-Stabilization, by Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi and Vahab Mirrokni (PDF)