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Although the lack of inertia and other microgrid characteristics pose control challenges, microgrids are amenable to new control paradigms, e.g., those that rely on distributed computations rather than a centralized processor. We address the problem of distributed generation control in islanded ac microgrids with and without inertia. In the case of microgrids comprising heterogeneous generators, some of which have inertia, we propose a control architecture for frequency regulation and optimal dispatch designed to take advantage of microgrid-specific properties. For microgrids with no inertia, we propose a control architecture that is designed to drive the average frequency error to zero while ensuring that the frequency at every bus is equal and that the operating point that results is stable. In both cases, we also propose an implementation of each control architecture that relies on distributed algorithms that eliminate the need for a centralized processor with global information. 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