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Distributed systems: principles and paradigms

Distributed systems: principles and paradigms

Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (Andrew Stuart), 1944-; Steen, Maarten van

Based on the formula of Tanenbaum's Distributed Operating Systems, this text covers seven key principles of distributed systems: communications, processes, naming, synchronisation, consistency and replication, fault tolerance and security

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Published Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c2002
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    Statement of responsibility: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten Van Steen
    Copyright: 2002
    ISBN: 0130888931, 9780130888938
    Intended audience: Specialized.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 749-782) and index.
    Physical Description: xxii, 803p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Subject: Client/server computing.; Distributed operating systems (Computers); Electronic data processing Distributed processing.

    Contents

    1. (NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Summary section.)
    2. 1. Introduction.
    3. Definition of a Distributed System. Goals. Hardware Concepts. Software Concepts. The Client-Server Model.
    4. 2. Communication.
    5. Layered Protocols. Remote Procedure Call. Remote Object Invocation. Message-Oriented Communication. Stream-Oriented Communication.
    6. 3. Processes.
    7. Threads. Clients. Servers. Code Migration. Software Agents.
    8. 4. Naming.
    9. Naming Entities. Locating Mobile Entities. Removing Unreferenced Entities.
    10. 5. Synchronization.
    11. Clock Synchronization. Logical Clocks. Global State. Election Algorithms. Mutual Exclusion. Distributed Transactions.
    12. 6. Consistency and Replication.
    13. Introduction. Data-Centric Consistency Models. Client-Centric Consistency Models. Distribution Protocols. Consistency Protocols. Examples.
    14. 7. Fault Tolerance.
    15. Introduction to Fault Tolerance. Process Resilience. Reliable Client-Server Communication. Reliable Group Communication. Distributed Commit. Recovery.
    16. 8. Security.
    17. Introduction to Security. Secure Channels. Access Control. Security Management. Example: Kerberos. Example: SEASAME. Example: Electronic Payment Systems.
    18. 9. Distributed Object-Based Systems.
    19. CORBA. Distributed COM. Globe. Comparison of CORBA, DCOM, and Globe.
    20. 10. Distributed File Systems.
    21. Sun Network File System. The Coda File System. Other Distributed File Systems. Comparison of Distributed File Systems.
    22. 11. Distributed Document-Based Systems.
    23. The World Wide Web. Lotus Notes. Comparison of WWW and Lotus Notes.
    24. 12. Distributed Coordination-Based Systems.
    25. Introduction to Coordination Models. TIB/Rendezvous. Jini. Comparison of TIB/Rendezvous and Jini.
    26. 13. Bibliography and Suggested Readings.
    27. Suggestions for Further Reading. Alphabetical Bibliography.
    28. Index.

    Author note

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum has an S.B. degree from M.LT. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he is head of the Computer Systems Department. He is also the Dean of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, an interuniversity graduate school doing research on advanced parallel, distributed, and imaging systems. Nevertheless, he is trying very hard to avoid turning into a bureaucrat.

    In the past, he has done research on compilers, operating systems, networking, and local-area distributed systems. His current research focuses primarily on the design of wide-area distributed systems that scale to a billion users. This research is being done together with Dr. Maarten van Steen. Together, all his research projects have led to over 90 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings and five books.

    Prof. Tanenbaum has also produced a considerable volume of software. He was the principal architect of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit, a widely-used toolkit for writing portable compilers, as well as of MINIX, a small UNIX clone intended for use in student programming labs. Together with his Ph.D. students and programmers, he helped design the Amoeba distributed operating system, a high-performance microkernel-based distributed operating system. The MINIX and Amoeba systems are now available for free via the Internet.

    His Ph.D. students have gone on to greater glory after getting their degrees. He is very proud of them. In this respect he resembles a mother hen.

    Prof. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, winner of the 1994 ACM Karl V Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and winner of the 1997 ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education. He is also listed in Who's Who in the World. His home page on the World Wide Web can be found at URL http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/.

    Maarten van Steen is currently an associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam where he teaches operating systems, computer networks, and distributed systems. He has also given various highly successful courses on computer systems related subjects to ICT professionals from industry and governmental organizations.

    Dr. van Steen studied Applied Mathematics at Twente University and received a Ph.D. from Leiden University in the field of software design techniques for concurrent systems. After his graduate studies he went to work for an industrial research laboratory where he eventually became head of the Computer Systems Group, concentrating on programming support for parallel applications.

    After five years of struggling to simultaneously do research and management, he decided to return to academia, first as an assistant professor in Computer Science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and later as an assistant professor in Andrew Tanenbaum's group at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Going back to university was the right decision; his wife thinks so too.

    His current research concentrates on large-scale wide-area distributed systems, with an emphasis on locating mobile objects, system architecture, and adaptive distribution and replication. Together with prof. Tanenbaum he leads the Globe project in which a group of approximately a dozen researchers collaborate to develop a wide-area distributed system by the same name. The Globe system is described at http://www.cs.vu.nl/globe.

    Description

    For courses on Distributed Systems, Distributed Operating Systems, and Advanced Operating Systems focusing on distributed systems found in departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

    Distributed systems are common. Computer scientists and engineers need to understand how the principles and paradigms underlying distributed systems software and be familiar with several real world examples. No other book systematically examines the underlying principles and how they are applied to a wide variety of distributed systems with the depth and clarity of this presentation.

    Back cover copy

    Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen cover the principles, advanced concepts, and technologies of distributed systems in detail, including: communication, replication, fault tolerance, and security. Intended for use in a senior/graduate level distributed systems course or by professionals, this text systematically shows how distributed systems are designed and implemented in real systems. Written in the superb writing style of other Tanenbaum books, the material also features unique accessibility and a wide variety of real-world examples and case studies, such as NFS v4, CORBA, DCOM, Jini, and the World Wide Web.

    FEATURES

    Detailed coverage of seven key principles.
    An introductory chapter followed by a chapter devoted to each key principle: communication, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency and replication, fault tolerance, and security, including unique comprehensive coverage of middleware models.

    Four chapters devoted to state-of-the-art real-world examples of middleware.
    Covers object-based systems, document-based systems, distributed file systems, and coordination-based systems including Corba, DCOM, Globe, NFS v4, Coda, the World Wide Web, and Jini.

    Excellent coverage of timely, advanced distributed systems topics:
    Security, payment systems, recent Internet and Web protocols, scalability, and caching and replication.

    NEW-The Prentice Hall Companion Website for this book contains PowerPoint slides, figures in various file formats, and other teaching aids, and a link to the author's Web site. Please visit http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum.