Description

Features

• Incorporates and anticipates the major developments in distributed systems technology
• Case studies illustrate the design concepts for each major topic

New To This Edition

• Three entirely new chapters on Peer-to-Peer Systems, Web Services, and Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems.
• More than 25 detailed case studies of well-known systems, 8 of them new including studies of the Grid, Cooltown, Bluetooth andthe (in)security of the WiFi WEP protocol.
• Updated coverage of XML and its security extensions, the Advanced Encryption Standard and security design for ubiquitous systems.

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

Courses

Distributed Systems  (Computer Science)

Next Edition(s)

• Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 5/E
  Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg & Blair
  ©2012  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Cloth; 1008 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132143011  |  ISBN-13: 9780132143011
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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 be invaluable 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. The fifth 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.

   

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  The fifth edition of this book includes new chapters on the Google infrastructure, distributed objects and components, and indirect communication.

   

  The book aims to provide an understanding of the principles on which the Internet and other distributed systems are based; their architecture, algorithms and design; and how they meet the demands of contemporary distributed applications. 

   

  It begins with a set of seven chapters that together cover the building blocks for a study of distributed systems. The next set of chapters covers the important topic of middleware, examining different approaches to supporting distributed applications including distributed objects and components, web services and alternative peer-to-peer solutions. These are followed by chapters covering the well-established topics of security, distributed file systems and distributed naming before moving on to important data-related aspects including distributed transactions and data replication. Algorithms associated with all these topics are described as they arise and also in separate chapters devoted to timing, coordination and agreement.

                 

  The book culminates in chapters that address the emerging areas of mobile and ubiquitous computing and distributed multimedia systems before presenting a substantial case study focusing on the design and implementation of the distributed systems infrastructure that supports Google both in terms of core search functionality and the increasing range of additional services offered by Google (for example, Gmail and Google Earth).

   

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  New to the Fifth Edition 

   

  New chapters:

  Indirect Communication: Covering group communication, publish-subscribe and case studies on JavaSpaces, JMS, WebSphere and Message Queues.

  Distributed Objects and Components: Covering component-based middleware and case studies on Enterprise JavaBeans, Fractal and CORBA.

  Designing Distributed Systems: Devoted to a major new case study on the Google infrastructure.

   

  Topics added to other chapters: 

  Cloud computing, network virtualization, operating system virtualization, message passing interface, unstructured peer-to-peer, tuple spaces, loose coupling in relation to web services.

   

  Other new case studies: 

  Skype, Gnutella, TOTA, L2imbo, BitTorrent, End System Multicast.

   

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Backcover Copy

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Concepts and Design

Fourth Edition

George Coulouris   Jean Dollimore   Tim Kindberg

'This book is simply the standard by which all other Distributed Systems texts are measured.' 

Amazon.co.uk review of the third edition

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. The fourth 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.

Highlights of the fourth edition include:

Ø      Three entirely new chapters on peer-to-peer systems, web services, and mobile and ubiquitous systems.

Ø      More than 25 detailed case studies of well-known systems, eight of them new, including studies of the Grid, Cooltown, Bluetooth andthe (in)security of the WiFi WEP protocol.

Ø      Updated coverage of XML and its security extensions, the Advanced Encryption Standard and security design for ubiquitous 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 be invaluable to software engineers and systems designers wishing to understand new and future developments in the field.

George Coulouris is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Jean Dollimore was, until her retirement, Senior Lecturer in computer science at Queen Mary College, Universityof London. Tim Kindberg is a Senior Researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol.

Check out www.cdk4.net or www.pearsoned.co.uk/coulouris for a rich set of resources for students and instructors, including:

Ø      The book bibliography with links to relevant online references.

Ø      PowerPoint teaching slides.

Ø      Presentation guidelines for instructors.

Ø      Solutions to all exercises (for instructors only).

Ø      Material from previous editions that will not fit in this one.

Ø      Source code for all program listings.

Ø      Links to many courses using the book.

Ø      A carefully maintained errata list and more!

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  Dollimore, Kindberg & Coulouris
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