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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 beinvaluable 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 seamless and transparent way. Thefifth edition of this best-selling text continues to provide a comprehensive source of material on the principles and practice of distributed computer systems and the exciting new developments based on them, using a wealth of modern case studies to illustrate their design and development. The depth of coverage will enable students to evaluate existing distributed systems and design new ones.

Distributed Systems: International Edition

• CONTENTS


• PREFACE


• 1 CHARACTERIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS


• 1.1 Introduction


• 1.2 Examples of distributed systems


• 1.3 Trends in distributed systems


• 1.4 Focus on resource sharing


• 1.5 Challenges


• 1.6 Case study: The World Wide Web


• 1.7 Summary


• 2 SYSTEM MODELS


• 2.1 Introduction


• 2.2 Physical models


• 2.3 Architectural models


• 2.4 Fundamental models


• 2.5 Summary


• 3 NETWORKING AND INTERNETWORKING


• 3.1 Introduction


• 3.2 Types of network


• 3.3 Network principles


• 3.4 Internet protocols


• 3.5 Case studies: Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth


• 3.6 Summary


• 4 INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION


• 4.1 Introduction


• 4.2 The API for the Internet protocols


• 4.3 External data representation and marshalling


• 4.4 Multicast communication


• 4.5 Network virtualization: Overlay networks


• 4.6 Case study: MPI


• 4.7 Summary


• 5 REMOTE INVOCATION


• 5.1 Introduction


• 5.2 Request-reply protocols


• 5.3 Remote procedure call


• 5.4 Remote method invocation


• 5.5 Case study: Java RMI


• 5.6 Summary


• 6 INDIRECT COMMUNICATION


• 6.1 Introduction


• 6.2 Group communication


• 6.3 Publish-subscribe systems


• 6.4 Message queues


• 6.5 Shared memory approaches


• 6.6 Summary


• 7 OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT


• 7.1 Introduction


• 7.2 The operating system layer


• 7.3 Protection


• 7.4 Processes and threads


• 7.5 Communication and invocation


• 7.6 Operating system architecture


• 7.7 Virtualization at the