Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (August 1, 2021) © 2012

  • George Coulouris Cambridge University
  • Jean Dollimore Formerly of Queen Mary, University of London
  • Tim Kindberg matter 2 media
  • Gordon Blair Lancaster University
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Title overview

Distributed Systems will provide you with the skills you'll need to design and maintain software for distributed applications. Using a wealth of modern case studies to illustrate the development of distributed systems, this text will enable you to evaluate existing examples and design new ones.

The 5th Edition offers 3 new chapters to ensure up-to-date coverage of the field. Chapter 6, Indirect Communication, covers events and notification. Chapter 8, Distributed Objects and Components offers a case study on CORBA. And Chapter 21, Designing Distributed Systems, includes a major new case study on Google.

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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