Description
Book SynopsisAs distributed systems become increasingly available, the need for a fundamental discussion of the subject has grown. This book covers the fundamental concepts in distributed computing systems such as time, state, simultaneity, order, knowledge, failure, and agreement in distributed systems.
Table of ContentsForeword.
Preface.
Introduction.
Model of a Computation.
Logical Clocks.
Verifying Clock Algorithms.
Clocks of Different Dimensions.
Mutual Exclusion: Using Timestamps.
Mutual Exclusion: Tokens and Quorums.
Drinking Philosophers Problem.
Leader Election.
Global State.
Observing Global Predicates.
Observing Conjuctive Predicates.
Channel Predicates.
Termination Detection.
Control of a Distributed Computation.
Causal Message Ordering.
Synchronous and Total Message Ordering.
Computation of a Global Functon.
Repeated Global Computation of a Global Function.
Synchronizers.
Slicers.
Distributed Shared Memory.
Self-Stabilization.
Knowledge and Common Knowledge.
Consensus Under Asynchrony.
Consensus Under Synchrony.
Failure Detectors.
Easy Problems in Asychronous Systems.
Checkpointing for Recovery.
Message Logging for Recovery.
Appendix: Partial Orders.
Bibliography.
Index.
