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Keith Cogswell
A Review of Distributed Systems Concepts and Design Fifth Edition
Distributed systems are becoming more prevalent and complex in today's world, requiring a solid understanding of the fundamental principles and techniques for designing and implementing them. Distributed Systems Concepts and Design Fifth Edition by George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair is a comprehensive textbook that covers the core concepts and challenges of distributed systems, such as communication, processes, naming, synchronization, consistency, replication, fault tolerance, security and distributed object-based systems.
The fifth edition of this book has been updated to reflect the latest developments and trends in distributed systems, such as cloud computing, peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks and web services. The book also includes new case studies and examples to illustrate the practical applications of the concepts and techniques. The book is accompanied by a website that provides additional resources for instructors and students, such as slides, exercises, solutions, code examples and links to relevant websites.
The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science, engineering and related disciplines. It is also a valuable reference for practitioners and researchers who work with distributed systems in various domains. The book assumes some basic knowledge of operating systems, networks and programming languages.
The book is organized into four parts: Part I introduces the basic concepts and models of distributed systems; Part II covers the fundamental issues of communication, processes and coordination in distributed systems; Part III discusses the key techniques for achieving reliability, consistency and security in distributed systems; Part IV explores the advanced topics of distributed object-based systems, distributed file systems, distributed web-based systems and distributed coordination-based systems.
The book is well-written and easy to follow, with clear explanations, diagrams and examples. The book also provides exercises at the end of each chapter to test the understanding of the readers and to encourage further exploration of the topics. The book is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to distributed systems that covers both the theoretical foundations and the practical aspects of designing and implementing them.
In this section, we will briefly review the main topics covered in each part of the book.
Part I: Introduction
This part introduces the basic concepts and models of distributed systems, such as architectures, middleware, transparency and openness. It also presents some examples of distributed systems, such as the Internet, intranets and mobile systems. The main objectives of this part are to provide an overview of the characteristics and challenges of distributed systems, and to introduce the terminology and notation used throughout the book.
Part II: Communication
This part covers the fundamental issues of communication, processes and coordination in distributed systems. It discusses the different types of communication paradigms, such as remote invocation, indirect communication and group communication. It also explains the concepts of processes, threads and virtualization, and how they can be used to create concurrent and distributed applications. Furthermore, it explores the techniques for coordinating processes in distributed systems, such as clocks, events, logical time and global states.
Part III: Reliability
This part discusses the key techniques for achieving reliability, consistency and security in distributed systems. It covers the topics of fault tolerance, replication and recovery, and how they can be used to cope with failures and ensure availability and durability. It also examines the issues of consistency and replication in distributed systems, such as consistency models, consistency protocols and distributed transactions. Moreover, it addresses the challenges of security in distributed systems, such as authentication, authorization, confidentiality and integrity.
Part IV: Advanced Topics
This part explores the advanced topics of distributed object-based systems, distributed file systems, distributed web-based systems and distributed coordination-based systems. It presents the principles and design of distributed object-based systems, such as CORBA, Java RMI and web services. It also describes the features and implementation of distributed file systems, such as NFS and AFS. Furthermore, it introduces the concepts and technologies of distributed web-based systems, such as RESTful web services, AJAX and mashups. Finally, it illustrates the applications and benefits of distributed coordination-based systems, such as tuple spaces, publish-subscribe systems and peer-to-peer systems.
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