GEOMETRIC ROUTING

<ol>

<li>"Routing with Guaranteed Delivery in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks" by
   Bose, Morin, Stojmenovic and Urrutia

<li> "Internal Node and Shortcut Based Routing with Guaranteed Delivery
   in Wireless Networks" by Datta, Ivan Stojmenovic, Jie Wu

<li> "Geometric Ad-Hoc Routing: of Theory and Practice" by Khun,
  Wattenhofer et al

<li> "Fast Geometric Routing with Concurrent Face Traversal" Clouoser et
  al

<li> "Geocasting with guaranteed delivery in sensor networks"
  Ivan Stojmenovic

<li> "Stateless Geocasting" J. Adamek, M. Nesterenko, S. Tixeuil
</ol>

<p>
FUNDAMENTALS OF DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS

<ol>
<li> "Defining Liveness" Bowen Alpern and Fred Schneider
  https://www.cs.cornell.edu/fbs/publications/DefLiveness.pdf
  <a href=liveness.txt>questions</a>
  
<li> "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" Leslie Lamport
  https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
  <a href=clocks.txt>questions</a>
</ol>

<p>
AGREEMENT AND CONSENSUS

<ol>

<li> "Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process"
  Michel J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch, Michael S. Paterson
  <a href=flpQuestions.txt>questions</a>
  
<li> "Unreliable Failure Detectors for Reliable Distributed Systems"
  Tuchar Deepak Chandra and Sam Toueg

<li> "The Weakest Failure Detector for Solving Consensus"
  TD Chandra, V. Hadzilacos, S. Toueg

<li> "Leader Based Consensus" Achour Mostefaoui and Michel Raynal

</ol>



<p>
BLOCKCHAIN

<ol>
<li> "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by Satoshi Nakamoto<br>
  https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
  <a href=bitcoinQuestions.txt>questions</a>
  
<li> "The Byzantine Generals Problem" LESLIE LAMPORT, ROBERT SHOSTAK, and MARSHALL PEASE<br>
  https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/byz.pdf
  <a href=generalsQuestions.txt>questions</a>
  
<li> "Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance" Castro and Liskov<br>
  http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
  <a href=pbftQuestions.txt>questions</a>
  
<li> "Practical Synchronous Byzantine Consensus" Ling Ren et al<br>
  https://www.cs.umd.edu/~kartik/papers/10_syncsmr.pdf
  <ul>
    note: for the motivation for this paper, read Katz&Koo "On Expected Constant-Round Protocols
    for Byzantine Agreement"
    https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/065.pdf section 1.2
  </ul>
  
<li> "Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies" Yossi Gilad et al<br>
  https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-eprint.pdf

<li> "A Secure Sharding Protocol For Open Blockchains" Loi Luu et al<br>
  http://people.cs.georgetown.edu/~cnewport/teaching/cosc841-spring19/papers/new/sharding.pdf

<li> "OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding" Kokoris-Kogias et al<br>
  https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/406.pdf

<li> "RapidChain: Scaling Blockchain via Full Sharding" Zamani et al<br>
  https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/460.pdf
</ol>