... al. (20 05).In the case of DHT-based systems, the basic idea is to reserve a fraction of theidentifier space for superpeers. Recall that in DHT-based systems each nodereceives a random and uniformly ... known as a write-backcache, which is, again, mainly applied in distributed file systems. 26 8SYNCHRONIZATIONCHAP. 6Figure 6 -22 . Election algorithm in a wireless network, with node a as the ... the issue of howprocesses in distributed systems synchronize. Synchronization is all about doingthe right thing at the right time. A problem in distributed systems, and computernetworks in general,...