ECE 526 : Fall 2016 : Distributed Algorithms

ECE 526 Distributed Algorithms
Fall 2016

Instructor: Nitin Vaidya
Office hours: Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. or by appointment
Office location: 456 Coordinated Science Lab (CSL)
Phone: 217-265-5414
E-mail: nhv@illinois.edu

Lectures: Monday and Wednesday 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Room 3081 ECE Building

Teaching assistant: Lili Su (lilisu3@illinois.edu), Office hours: Thursday 10:30 - 12:00, ECEB 4034.

Course handout
Course material:

Required textbook: Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations, and Advanced Topics, Second Edition, Hagit Attiya and Jennifer Welch, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Visit webpage for the book to see the errata.

In addition to the required textbook, the course will also use materials from other sources.
Useful links:
- We will use Piazza to post announcements and to handle questions. Please add yourself to the ECE 526 Piazza at http://piazza.com/illinois/fall2016/ece526.
- Website for Fall 2015 offering of this course, and its Lecture Summary. You may have to insert /fa2015 in the path for various links posted on these pages.
- Slides for several lectures from a a course taught by Prof. Jennifer Welch will be used in this class.

Quiz schedule (in-class):

October 5, 2016 (solutions)
October 26, 2016 (Wednesday) (solutions
November 7, 2016 (Monday)
November 16, 2016 (Wednesday) (solutions)
November 30, 2016(Wednesday) (Quiz and solutions)

Exam schedule:

Mid-term exam 1: Mid-term exam 1 will be take-home. The solutions will be due in the morning on November 2. The exam will be posted late afternoon on October 31 or early morning on November 1 -- either way, students will have at least 24 hours to work on the exam.
Mid-term exam 2: The second mid-term exam is scheduled in room 2015 ECEB on December 6, 2016 (Tuesday) starting at 7:00 p.m. The exam will be open-book open-notes. Topics covered in Lecture 8 or later in the semester, and associated required readings, are included for Exam 2.