Table of Contents

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

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Provides a broad and up-to-date account of the principles and practice of distributed system design.