Practical Distributed Processing

• Main Authors: Brooke, Phillip J. (Author), Paige, Richard F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Distributed processing has a strong theoretical foundation, but many day-to-day practitioners make limited use of the advantages this theory can give them. The result includes unreliable systems with obscure and intermittent failures that can cost time, money and in extreme cases, lives. Reliable co...

Table of Contents:

• What is Distributed Processing?
• Concepts of Concurrency
• Models of Concurrency
• Concurrency in Operating Systems
• Interprocess Communication
• Protocols
• Security
• Languages and Distributed Processing
• Building Distributed Systems
• Case Study: A Networked Game
• The End.