Chapter 1: Introduction <p><b>Chapter Goal: to introduce distributed computing concepts, models and relevant concepts</b><b></b></p><p><b>No of pages - 30</b></p>1. Introduction 1.1. What is distributed computing 1.1.1.Characteristics (collection, coherent, same task, consists of nodes etc) 1.2. Distributed algorithms 1.3. Elements of distributed computing 1.4. computational (system) model 1.5. Space / time diagram 1.6. Time, clocks and order 1.7. Broadcast ordering 1.8. types 1.8.1.1.Message passing 1.8.1.2.Shared memory 1.9. Synchrony / timing 1.10. Adversary model 1.11. Faults 1.11.1.Process / program faults 1.1