The project must be finished by the last day of class. By week five you should have sent me a one-page abstract of what you will be doing. Report projects can be studies, survey papers, or research papers. Below is a short list of some possible topics. Such a coordinated effort would most likely be impossible today.
Epidemic protocols are protocols that multicast data similar to the way a disease spreads.
But, they are very message intensive. Research and developent of the computational grid has led to a resurgence in interest in large distributed applications. Indeed, some systems are being designed to scale to millions of distributed objects and tens of thousands or more of processors. So far, though, the computational grid community have not yet built large enough appliations to make fault-tolerance a concern. There has been a considerable amount of research done in detecting properties that are not stable.