Question: Consider a circular DHT with node and key identifiers in the range [0,63]. Suppose there are eight peers with identifiers 0, 8, 16, 24, 32,40,48,

Consider a circular DHT with node and key identifiers in the range [0,63]. Suppose there are eight peers with identifiers 0, 8, 16, 24, 32,40,48, and 56.
a. Suppose each peer can have one shortcut peer. For each of the eight peers, determine its shortcut peer so that the number of messages sent for any query (beginning at any peer) is minimized.
b. Repeat (a) but now allow each peer to have two shortcut peers.

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