Distributed Systems : Concepts and Design
ISBN: 9780132143011 | 0132143011
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 4/27/2011
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Broad and up-to-date coverage of the principles and practice in the fast moving area of Distributed Systems. Distributed Systems provides students of computer science and engineering with the skills they will need to design and maintain software for distributed applications. it will also be invaluable to software engineers and systems designers wishing to understand new and future developments in the field. From mobile phones To The Internet, our lives depend increasingly on distributed systems linking computers and other devices together in a ... MORE
Foundations
1 Characterization of DS
2 System Models
3 Networking and Internetworking
4 Interprocess Communication
5 Remote Invocation
6 Indirect Communication
7 Operating System Support
Middleware
8 Dist. Objects and Components
9 Web Services
10Peer-to-Peer Systems
System services
11 Security
12 Distributed File Systems
13 Name Services
... MORE14 Time and Global States
15 Coordination and Agreement
Shared data
16 Transactions and Concurrency Control
17 Distributed Transactions
18 Replication
New challenges
19 Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
20 Distributed Multimedia Systems
Substantial Case Study
21 Designing Distributed Systems: Google Case Study
George Coulouris is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Jean Dollimore was, until her retirement, Senior Lecturer in computer science at Queen Mary College, University of London. Tim Kindberg is a Senior Researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol. Gordon Blair is a Professor in the Lancaster University Computing Department.
