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"To my knowledge, this is the only timely book on distributed systems. Other books are quickly becoming outdated." Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Karlstad Universitet, Sweden



Table of Contents

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

Distributed algorithms
14 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

Distributed Systems

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    A Paperback / softback by George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg

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      Publisher Pearson Education Limited
      Published 7 July 2011
      ISBN-13 9780273760597
      978-0273760597
      ISBN-10 273760599
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      Computing Distributed systems / Distributed computing

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "To my knowledge, this is the only timely book on distributed systems. Other books are quickly becoming outdated." Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Karlstad Universitet, Sweden



      Table of Contents

      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

      Distributed algorithms
      14 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

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