Distributed systems : concepts and design
- 4th ed.
- Harlow : [S.n.], 2005
- xiv, 927 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- International computer science series .
Characterization of distributed systems -- System models -- Networking and internetworking -- Interprocess communication -- Distributed objects and remote invocation -- Operating system support -- Security -- Distributed file systems -- Name services -- Peer-to-peer systems -- Time and global states -- Coordination and agreement -- Transactions and concurrency control -- Distributed transactions -- Replication -- Mobile and ubiquitous computing -- Distributed multimedia systems -- Distributed shared memory -- web services -- Corba case study -- References -- Index.