Distributed systems, concepts and design (4^th Ed.)

This broad and up-to-date coverage of the principles and practice in this fast moving area includes the key issues in the debate between components and web services as the way forward for industry. The depth of coverage should enable students to evaluate existing distributed systems and design new ones.

Preface 1 Characterization of distributed systems 2 System models 3 Networking and internetworking 4 Interprocess communication 5 Distributed objects and remote invocation 6 Operating system support 7 Security 8 Distributed file systems 9 Name services 10 Peer-to-peer systems 11 Time and global states 12 Coordination and agreement 13 Transactions and concurrency control 14 Distributed transactions 15 Replication 16 Mobile and ubiquitous computing 17 Distributed multimedia systems 18 Distributed shared memory 19 Web services 20 CORBA case study References