Description

Features

• Java and CORBA are used as the basis for most examples.

• Includes a new chapter on distributed multimedia systems.

• Provides new material on current network technologies such as IPv6, Mobile IP, and active and wireless networks.

• Features expanded coverage of the Internet, intranets, and middleware.

• UNIX knowledge no longer required as in previous editions.

New To This Edition

• NEW!  Chapters on distributed multimedia systems, algorithms for coordination and agreement.
• NEW!  Material on new network technologies, (e.g. IPv6, MobileIP and wireless networks).
• NEW!  More emphasis is placed on object orientation (Java and CORBA are used as the basis for most examples).

Table of Contents

(Each Chapter concludes with a Summary.)

1. Characterization of Distributed Systems.

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
  Suggested retail price: $138.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $103.50  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  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.

   

  More Info
  

Backcover Copy

Distributed computing/Networks/Operating systems

Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design
Third Edition

George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore and Tim Kindberg

From reviews of the second edition:
"I do not know of a better book in the area of distributed systems and can recommend this one without hesitation."
Jan Madey, IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology

"¿ the best introductory distributed systems textbook"
E. Douglas Jensen's Annotated List of Recommended Distributed Computing System Books

The third edition of this best-selling text incorporates the major recent developments in distributed systems technology. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, with emphasis on the Internet, intranets, the Web and middleware. Other new topics include: fault modelling and fault tolerance, distributed objects and distributed multimedia systems. There is increased emphasis on algorithms and the discussion of security has been brought forward in the text and integrated with other related technologies. Unlike the previous editions, prior knowledge of UNIX is not required to follow the text.

As with previous editions, this book is intended to provide knowledge of the principles and practice of distributed system design. Information is conveyed in sufficient depth to allow readers to evaluate existing systems or design new ones. Case studies illustrate the design concepts for each major topic.

New to the third edition:
· New chapters on quality of service for multimedia systems, algorithms for coordination and agreement and CORBA
· Expanded coverage of the Internet and applications including the Web.
· Material on mobile computing and new network technologies such as IPv6, Mobile IP and wireless networks.
· More emphasis on object orientation, with Java and CORBA as the basis for most examples.
· New material on Internet security, fault modelling, fault tolerance and models of system execution.

A comprehensive website with additional material for readers and instructors can be found at www.cdk3.net or www.booksites.net/cdkbook.

Until recently, the authors were jointly responsible for several undergraduate and postgraduate courses on distributed systems at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

George Coulouris is now an emeritus professor at Queen Mary and Westfield College and is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge University, where he leads a research project on quality of service for dynamically reconfigurable multimedia systems. He has recently undertaken research on computer-supported cooperative work and its applications, middleware for distributed multimedia and security models for groupware.

Jean Dollimore is now a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary and Westfield College. She has recently carried out research on system support for computer-supported cooperative work, middleware for distributed multimedia and security models for groupware.

Tim Kindberg is a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, where he is investigating a web-based infrastructure for mobile computing that enables the physical world to be augmented with web resources. He has previously led a research project on system support for computer-supported cooperative work, and has undertaken research on distributed operating systems and middleware for distributed multimedia systems.

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