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Distributed Systems : Concepts and Design

ISBN: 9780321263544 | 0321263545
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
Tim Kindberg is a Senior Researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol.
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSConcepts and Design Fourth Edition George Coulouris Jean Dollimore Tim Kindberg'This book is simply the standard by which all other Distributed Systems texts are measured.' Amazon.co.uk review of the third editionFrom mobile phones to the Internet, our lives depend increasingly on distributed systems linking computers and other devices together in a seamless and transparent way. The fourth edition of this best-selling... MORE
Prefacexi
Characterization of Distributed Systems
1(28)
Introduction
2(1)
... MORE
Examples of distributed systems
3(4)
Resource sharing and the Web
7(9)
Challenges
16(9)
Summary
25(4)
System Models
29(36)
Introduction
30(1)
Architectural models
31(16)
Fundamental models
47(14)
Summary
61(4)
Networking and Internetworking
65(66)
Introduction
66(3)
Types of network
69(4)
Network principles
73(16)
Internet protocols
89(23)
Case studies: Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth and ATM
112(15)
Summary
127(4)
Interprocess Communication
131(46)
Introduction
132(1)
The API for the Internet protocols
133(11)
External data representation and marshalling
144(11)
Client-server communication
155(9)
Group communication
164(4)
Case study: interprocess communication in UNIX
168(4)
Summary
172(5)
Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation
177(44)
Introduction
178(3)
Communication between distributed objects
181(16)
Remote procedure call
197(4)
Events and notifications
201(7)
Case study: Java RMI
208(8)
Summary
216(5)
Operating System Support
221(44)
Introduction
222(1)
The operating system layer
223(3)
Protection
226(2)
Processes and threads
228(17)
Communication and invocation
245(11)
Operating system architecture
256(4)
Summary
260(5)
Security
265(58)
Introduction
266(8)
Overview of security techniques
274(12)
Cryptographic algorithms
286(9)
Digital signatures
295(7)
Cryptography pragmatics
302(3)
Case studies: Needham-Schroeder, Kerberos, TLS, 802.11 WiFi
305(14)
Summary
319(4)
Distributed File Systems
323(44)
Introduction
324(8)
File service architecture
332(5)
Case study: Sun Network File System
337(12)
Case study: The Andrew File System
349(10)
Enhancements and further developments
359(5)
Summary
364(3)
Name Services
367(30)
Introduction
368(3)
Name services and the Domain Name System
371(15)
Directory services
386(1)
Case study of the Global Name Service
387(3)
Case study of the X.500 Directory Service
390(4)
Summary
394(3)
Peer-to-Peer Systems
397(36)
Introduction
398(4)
Napster and its legacy
402(2)
Peer-to-peer middleware
404(2)
Routing overlays
406(4)
Overlay case studies: Pastry, Tapestry
410(9)
Application case studies: Squirrel, OceanStore, Ivy
419(10)
Summary
429(4)
Time and Global States
433(34)
Introduction
434(1)
Clocks, events and process states
435(2)
Synchronizing physical clocks
437(8)
Logical time and logical clocks
445(3)
Global states
448(9)
Distributed debugging
457(7)
Summary
464(3)
Coordination and Agreement
467(46)
Introduction
468(3)
Distributed mutual exclusion
471(8)
Elections
479(5)
Multicast communication
484(15)
Consensus and related problems
499(11)
Summary
510(3)
Transactions and Concurrency Control
513(52)
Introduction
514(3)
Transactions
517(11)
Nested transactions
528(2)
Locks
530(15)
Optimistic concurrency control
545(4)
Timestamp ordering
549(7)
Comparison of methods for concurrency control
556(1)
Summary
557(8)
Distributed Transactions
565(38)
Introduction
566(1)
Flat and nested distributed transactions
566(3)
Atomic commit protocols
569(9)
Concurrency control in distributed transactions
578(3)
Distributed deadlocks
581(8)
Transaction recovery
589(10)
Summary
599(4)
Replication
603(54)
Introduction
604(2)
System model and group communication
606(9)
Fault-tolerant services
615(7)
Case studies of highly available services: the gossip architecture, Bayou and Coda
622(19)
Transactions with replicated data
641(12)
Summary
653(4)
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
657(64)
Introduction
658(8)
Association
666(9)
Interoperation
675(8)
Sensing and context-awareness
683(13)
Security and privacy
696(9)
Adaptation
705(5)
Case study of Cooltown
710(7)
Summary
717(4)
Distributed Multimedia Systems
721(28)
Introduction
722(5)
Characteristics of multimedia data
727(1)
Quality of service management
728(10)
Resource management
738(2)
Stream adaptation
740(2)
Case study: the Tiger video file server
742(4)
Summary
746(3)
Distributed Shared Memory
749(34)
Introduction
750(4)
Design and implementation issues
754(9)
Sequential consistency and Ivy case study
763(8)
Release consistency and Munin case study
771(6)
Other consistency models
777(1)
Summary
778(5)
Web Services
783
Introduction
784(2)
Web services
786(14)
Service descriptions and IDL for web services
800(5)
A directory service for use with web services
805(2)
XML security
807(5)
Coordination of web services
812(2)
Case study: the Grid
814(10)
Summary
824

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