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Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design, 3/e George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, and Tim Kindberg 0-201-61918-0 |
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 modeling 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 modeling, fault tolerance and models of system execution.
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About the Authors
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.
Teaching Resources
All teaching resources for the book are available on the book's website (www.cdk3.net or www.booksites.net/cdkbook). The site includes:
- Reference list: The list of references that can be found at the end of the book is replicated at the web site. Web version of the reference list includes active links for material that is available online.
- Errata list: A list of errors that are discovered in the book, with corrections for them.
- Supplementary material: The authors plan to maintain a set of supplementary materials for each chapter. This consisted of source code for the programs in the book and relevant reading material that was present in the previous edition of the book. References to this supplementary material appear in the book with links such as www.cdk3.net/ipc.
- Instructor's Guide: The IG will contain all of the artwork from the book in a form suitable for use as slide masters, solutions to the exercises (protected by a password available only to teachers), chapter-chapter teaching hints, and
- suggested laboratory projects.
- Contributing teaching material: Authors hope to extend the supplementary material to cover new topics as they emerge during he lifetime of this edition. In order to do so, they invite teachers to submit teaching material, including lecture notes and laboratory projects.
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