Distributed Network Systems From Concepts to Implementations /

• Main Authors: Jia, Weijia (Author), Zhou, Wanlei (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Network Theory and Applications, 15
• Subjects: Computer science.; Microprocessors.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer-aided engineering.; Computer Science.; Processor Architectures.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

This textbook covers both theoretical and practical aspects of distributed computing. It describes the client-server model for developing distributed network systems, the communication paradigms used in a distributed network system, and the principles of reliability and security in the design of dis...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of Distributed Network Systems
• Modelling for Distributed Network Systems: The Client-Server Model
• Communication Paradigms for Distributed Network Systems
• Internetworking
• Interprocess Communication Using Message Passing
• TCP/UDP Communication in Java
• Interprocess Communication Using RPC
• Group Communications
• Reliability and Replication Techniques
• Security
• A Reactive System Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Computing
• Web-Based Databases
• Mobile Computing
• Distributed Network Systems: Case Studies
• Distributed Network Systems: Current Development.