Study one of the two papers:

  • Hunt, Patrick, Mahadev Konar, Flavio P. Junqueira, and Benjamin Reed. “{ZooKeeper}: Wait-free coordination for internet-scale systems.” In 2010 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 10). 2010
  • Mills, David L. “Internet time synchronization: the network time protocol.” IEEE Transactions on communications 39, no. 10 (2002): 1482-1493.

Prepare slides, discussing:

  • Motivation
  • Problem
  • Design
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation

Be prepared to present selected slides.