hongxia/dissertation

Sources for my PhD dissertation on the Raft consensus algorithm

This repository contains Diego Ongaro's PhD dissertation, Consensus: Bridging Theory and Practice, published by Stanford University in 2014. The dissertation PDFs and the dissertation sources are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, as described in the LICENSE file.

The source materials for the dissertation are made available here in the hopes that they might be useful, for example, to reformat the dissertation for a different medium or to copy sections for use in other documents (per the LICENSE). It requires the following to build:

• GNU make
• pdflatex
• bibtex
• Inkscape (to convert SVG images and layers from SVG images to PDF format)

Several pre-built PDFs are also included:

• book.pdf: formatted for a printed book (8.5x11" pages, bigger inside margins for binding, black hyperlinks)
• online.pdf: formatted for normal digital or print use (8.5x11" pages, consistent margins on all pages, blue hyperlinks)
• online-trim.pdf: formatted for digital viewing (6.6x9.35" pages, minimal margins, blue hyperlinks)
• stanford.pdf: exact file distributed by Stanford University (similar to online.pdf; copyright, signature, and preface pages differ)

All of these use the same page numbers starting at page 1, though book.pdf has an additional blank page before the introduction (page xviii).