Distributed Systems
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Distributed Systems

Theory and Applications

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eBook - PDF

Distributed Systems

Theory and Applications

About this book

Distributed Systems

Comprehensive textbook resource on distributed systems—integrates foundational topics with advanced topics of contemporary importance within the field

Distributed Systems: Theory and Applications is organized around three layers of abstractions: networks, middleware tools, and application framework. It presents data consistency models suited for requirements of innovative distributed shared memory applications. The book also focuses on distributed processing of big data, representation of distributed knowledge and management of distributed intelligence via distributed agents. To aid in understanding how these concepts apply to real-world situations, the work presents a case study on building a P2P Integrated E-Learning system. Downloadable lecture slides are included to help professors and instructors convey key concepts to their students.

Additional topics discussed in Distributed Systems: Theory and Applications include:

  • Network issues and high-level communication tools
  • Software tools for implementations of distributed middleware.
  • Data sharing across distributed components through publish and subscribe-based message diffusion, gossip protocol, P2P architecture and distributed shared memory.
  • Consensus, distributed coordination, and advanced middleware for building large distributed applications
  • Distributed data and knowledge management
  • Autonomy in distributed systems, multi-agent architecture
  • Trust in distributed systems, distributed ledger, Blockchain and related technologies.

Researchers, industry professionals, and students in the fields of science, technology, and medicine will be able to use Distributed Systems: Theory and Applications as a comprehensive textbook resource for understanding distributed systems, the specifics behind the modern elements which relate to them, and their practical applications.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. About the Authors
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Acronyms
  9. Chapter 1 Introduction
  10. Chapter 2 The Internet
  11. Chapter 3 Process to Process Communication
  12. Chapter 4 Microservices, Containerization, and MPI
  13. Chapter 5 Clock Synchronization and Event Ordering
  14. Chapter 6 Global States and Termination Detection
  15. Chapter 7 Leader Election
  16. Chapter 8 Mutual Exclusion
  17. Chapter 9 Agreements and Consensus
  18. Chapter 10 Gossip Protocols
  19. Chapter 11 Message Diffusion Using Publish and Subscribe
  20. Chapter 12 Peer‐to‐Peer Systems
  21. Chapter 13 Distributed Shared Memory
  22. Chapter 14 Distributed Data Management
  23. Chapter 15 Distributed Knowledge Management
  24. Chapter 16 Distributed Intelligence
  25. Chapter 17 Distributed Ledger
  26. Chapter 18 Case Study
  27. Index
  28. EULA